Few aspects of Unix system administration are more intimate than the relationship between the admin and their chosen shell. After all, the shell is the most fundamental interface to the system, the ...

I have a bash script that mounts my digital camera and then does a bunch of things to the images once the camera is mounted. The problem is that my current script can't tell when the mount fails and ...

The case statement in the bash shell provides an interesting and easy alternative to the more complex if statements. They represent the simplest form of the kind of logic that evaluates multiple ...