If you're working with a large amount of data in your Bash scripts, arrays will make your life a lot easier. Some people get intimidated by the syntax. But once learned, it will make your scripts more ...

The bash man page has long had the following bug listed: "It's too big and too slow" (at the very bottom of the man page). If you agree with that, then you probably won't want to read about the "new" ...

...and return, say, everything after "Second: " on the second line. This thing needs to be speedy, so I'm trying stick to builtins wherever possible. So: How the hell do I load up an array with the ...

I have a text file contining a list of strings, one string per line. The number of lines in this file is unknown, but not large (less than 50). Space characters in these strings are quoted with '\' (i ...

If you're used to a "standard" *NIX shell you may not be familiar with bash's array feature. Although not as powerful as similar constructs in the P languages (Perl, Python, and PHP) and others, they ...