It’s quite easy to get bash to concatenate strings and do simple math on Linux, but there are a number of options for you to use. This post focusses on concatenating strings, but also shows how one of ...

I recently thought about writing a Groovy script to search JARs for a specific string, but decided to first look for an alternative rather than writing a script. The alternative needed to be easy to ...

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The awk command can make it easy to remove duplicate characters from a string even when those characters aren’t sequential, especially when the process is turned into a script. First, the awk command ...

Editor's Note: This article has been updated by its author. Thank you, Pat. Have you ever wanted to change the names of many files at once? Or, have you ever needed to use a default value for a ...