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BASH is the GNU Bourne Again SHell, the successor to the classic Unix Bourne sh (shell). It's the default shell for various GNU systems.

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I have written a short bash (or POSIX-compliant) script to clean up the Traefik access log file and limit it to a maximum of 50 MB. I would like to know what you think of it. Any suggestions are ...
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I made this executable because I used to play on a MUD, which was essentially a server to which you connect to through telnet to play in a multiplayer world. What annoyed me was how difficult it was ...
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What I'm asking here is whether do you think the facts there is no type enforcing; there is no indentation enforcing consoles do not syntax highlight consoles do not emphasize multi-line input a-la ...
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In the below script I am using some arrays, and other Bash stuff, but I have made a minimal working example for you, where you cannot see those things. Anyway, I am interested in a review of the ...
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We’re enforcing Azure Entra authentication across all Linux VMs, so we’ll disable all local accounts via a custom script. The script will also create a single “break-glass” user with a randomly ...
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I'm looking for a (possibly cryptographic strong) hash function in Bash with the following properties: The input is only a string with 4 lower-case characters: aaaa to zzzz The output should be a ...
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On Arch Linux, there are 2 packages that provide the Rust toolchain: rust itself and rustup. When users try to install a package ...
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If you have files with Cyrillic filenames (e.g. день) and pack them as a ZIP archive on Windows, and then unpack on Mac using the standard archive utility, the ...
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The code works, but I could use help testing it more comprehensively and double-checking that everything I'm doing makes sense, and that all the options can coexist with each other. I'm running into ...
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I’ve been working on a bash script to clean up old Docker images while keeping the latest tag for each repository and skipping images currently in use. I’m sharing the script below and would ...
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This is a script to start a screen lock in Ubuntu, with user customizable background image(s). The script will eventually be run on sleep by systemd, so by root. This made it complicated to let the ...
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I'm trying to automate my Arch Linux installation using a bash script. The script would allow me to choose between installing Arch on a single SSD or using a combination of SSD (for root and home) and ...
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The script runs fine, and it seems to be working correctly. I'm looking for some criticism of the structure of the code, errors, bad practices, beginner's pitfalls, and bad code in general. I'm ...
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I've written a Bash function that can ask a simple yes/no question. The "yes/no" prompt is translated to the user's language (the question must be localised by the caller). Input is ...
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