Dragon Quest 64

Today's video and podcast players have a very useful feature that allows playing back the video/audio at an increased playback speed.  H...

For decades, Linux installations was done using CDs, later DVDs.  As the installation sizes increased and the popularity of CD/DVDs dropped ...

For the better part of my career I used 'find' incorrectly, or at the very least very naively.  The '-exec' trickery elude...

 Quick review of basic find command before getting to the content. $ find . -name "*.txt" -exec grep -l dog {} \; Executing comman...

  Occasionally there is a need in bash scripting to execute a series of commands in sequence conditionally.  Command2 needs to be run afte...

  Bash has a little known concept of read-only variables.  When specifying 'readonly' during a variable assignment prevents the va...

 A common, and often overlooked, need for scripting is addressing hanging, or unresponsive commands.  What should your script do if one of i...