hpr4401 :: hajime hosted by oxo
Let's see how oxo is using hajime in order to install Arch Linux on a old netbook.
In-Depth Series: Bash Scripting
- Number of episodes: 68
- Open/closed: open
- Date of earliest show: 2010-03-24
- Date of latest show: 2025-06-16
- Series RSS feeds: ogg, spx, mp3
This is an open series in which Hacker Public Radio Listeners can share their Bash scripting knowledge and experience with the community. General programming topics and Bash commands are explored along with some tutorials for the complete novice.
hpr4383 :: Changing font in Arch Linux (Wayland) hosted by oxo
How I changed my default font for my system.
hpr4373 :: Rsync with stdin as source hosted by oxo
Use find pipe it's the results into rsync to make a copy.
hpr4367 :: My first episode; 001 Introduction hosted by oxo
Living in the Linux commandline, bash and scripting
hpr4353 :: diff and patch hosted by Klaatu
Learn how to use diff and patch
hpr4088 :: Today I Learnt more Bash tips hosted by Some Guy On The Internet
Sgoti talks about supplying options to bash scripts
hpr3985 :: Bash snippet - be careful when feeding data to loops hosted by Dave Morriss
A loop in a pipeline runs in a subshell
hpr3962 :: It's your data hosted by Ken Fallon
Ken shows a safer way to get episodes from HPR
hpr3959 :: Download any HPR series with english file names hosted by gemlog
A dir with the series name will be created and all shows will be renamed to ShowTitle.mp3 inside it
hpr3928 :: RE: Klaatu. hosted by Some Guy On The Internet
Sgoti confuses everyone with bash nonsense.
hpr3882 :: Alternatives to the cd command hosted by Klaatu
Navigate your filesystem without cd
hpr3811 :: mkfifo and named pipes hosted by Klaatu
Have you ever named a pipe? If not, this is the episode you've been waiting for.
hpr3722 :: Bash snippet - plurals in messages hosted by Dave Morriss
How to use English singular and plural words in messages
hpr3713 :: Bash snippet - short-circuit evaluation in Bash Boolean expressions hosted by Dave Morriss
Found I could do this in Bash, so wanted to share!
hpr3625 :: Shell Tips and Snippets - Collaborative Effort hosted by Carl
Carl and special guests provide some shell tips and examples.
hpr3551 :: Bash snippet - some possibly helpful hints hosted by Dave Morriss
Using 'eval', 'mapfile' and environment variables
hpr3413 :: Bash snippet - using coproc with SQLite hosted by Dave Morriss
Sending multiple queries to a running instance of sqlite3
hpr3071 :: Bash snippet - quotes inside quoted strings hosted by Dave Morriss
How to add quotes to quoted strings in Bash
hpr3013 :: Bash Tips - 21 hosted by Dave Morriss
Environment variables
hpr2877 :: Using Zenity with Pdmenu hosted by Dave Morriss
Zenity is a rather cool program that will display GTK+ dialogs from a script
hpr2807 :: Are bash local variables local? hosted by clacke
A lesson on dynamic scope vs lexical scope
hpr2793 :: bash coproc: the future (2009) is here hosted by clacke
clacke discovers bash's coproc keyword and explains some toy examples
hpr2756 :: Bash Tips - 20 hosted by Dave Morriss
Deleting arrays; positional and special parameters in Bash
hpr2739 :: Bash Tips - 19 hosted by Dave Morriss
Arrays in Bash (part 4)
hpr2736 :: Response to show 2720 hosted by Dave Morriss
Some suggestions on how to improve a Bash script
hpr2729 :: Bash Tips - 18 hosted by Dave Morriss
Arrays in Bash (part 3)
hpr2719 :: Bash Tips - 17 hosted by Dave Morriss
Arrays in Bash (part 2)
hpr2709 :: Bash Tips - 16 hosted by Dave Morriss
Arrays in Bash (part 1)
hpr2699 :: Bash Tips - 15 hosted by Dave Morriss
Some of the pitfalls when using loops in Bash
hpr2689 :: Bash Tips - 14 hosted by Dave Morriss
More about loops - the 'for' loop, 'break' and 'continue'
hpr2679 :: Extra ancillary Bash tips - 13 hosted by Dave Morriss
Making decisions in Bash (part 5)
hpr2669 :: Additional ancillary Bash tips - 12 hosted by Dave Morriss
Making decisions in Bash (part 4)
hpr2659 :: Further ancillary Bash tips - 11 hosted by Dave Morriss
Making decisions in Bash (part 3)
hpr2649 :: More ancillary Bash tips - 10 hosted by Dave Morriss
Making decisions in Bash (part 2)
hpr2639 :: Some ancillary Bash tips - 9 hosted by Dave Morriss
Making decisions in Bash (part 1)
hpr2496 :: Making a Raspberry Pi inventory hosted by Dave Morriss
How to collect identifying information about RPi devices
hpr2483 :: Useful Bash functions - part 4 hosted by Dave Morriss
A Bash function for parsing lists of numbers and ranges
hpr2469 :: A flight itinerary in Bash hosted by Dave Morriss
Working out dates and times in a Bash script
hpr2448 :: Useful Bash functions - part 3 hosted by Dave Morriss
A few more possibly useful Bash functions are discussed
hpr2349 :: Customizing my bash prompt hosted by Windigo
A detailed look into how, and why, to customize a bash prompt.
hpr2317 :: Bash snippet - extglob and scp hosted by Dave Morriss
How does scp manage extended glob patterns?
hpr2302 :: Bash snippet - nullglob hosted by Dave Morriss
After learning about the nullglob option I have started to use it
hpr2293 :: More supplementary Bash tips hosted by Dave Morriss
Finishing off the subject of expansion in Bash (part 2)
hpr2278 :: Some supplementary Bash tips hosted by Dave Morriss
Finishing off the subject of expansion in Bash (part 1)
hpr2135 :: Audio speedup script hosted by Dave Morriss
I want to speed up some of my podcasts and truncate silence in them too so I wrote a script to do it
hpr2096 :: Useful Bash functions - part 2 hosted by Dave Morriss
The further development of a Bash function that may be of use in your scripts
hpr2045 :: Some other Bash tips hosted by Dave Morriss
Yet more information about types of expansion in Bash
hpr2003 :: Using the Incron file watching daemon hosted by Mr. Young
I briefly introduce the incron file watching daemon, and give an example of how I use it.
hpr1990 :: Pomodoro Timer - The Evolution of a Script part deux hosted by Nacho Jordi
Further evolutions of a pomodoro script that got a life of its own
hpr1987 :: Pomodoro Timer - The Evolution of a Script (pt 1) hosted by Nacho Jordi
The different stages of a bash script that was created accidentally
hpr1952 :: Time now Ladies and Gents hosted by Ken Fallon
How to get the total duration of a lot of media files.
hpr1951 :: Some additional Bash tips hosted by Dave Morriss
More about expansion in Bash: this time arithmetic expansion
hpr1903 :: Some further Bash tips hosted by Dave Morriss
Some more information about types of expansion in Bash
hpr1884 :: Some more Bash tips hosted by Dave Morriss
Some information about brace expansion in Bash that you might not know
hpr1843 :: Some Bash tips hosted by Dave Morriss
A few useful Bash features that may not be well known
hpr1838 :: Waking up with Windigo hosted by Windigo
An overview of a terrible, hacky method of waking up.
hpr1791 :: Organizing Photos with Bash hosted by Tony Pelaez
Use bash to simplify the process of organizing and backing up photographs.
hpr1757 :: Useful Bash functions hosted by Dave Morriss
Some Bash functions that may be of use in your scripts
hpr1710 :: Windows Remote Desktop on GNU/Linux hosted by Ken Fallon
A wrapper script for xfreerdp to make connecting to windows servers painless
hpr1648 :: Bash parameter manipulation hosted by Dave Morriss
A summary and aide memoire of Bash parameter expansion methods
hpr1430 :: thebestofyoutube.com download script hosted by Ken Fallon
A hacked script to download youtube videos
hpr1247 :: Recording Terrestrial Radio with bash scripts and cron jobs hosted by Jon Kulp
Using a Bash script to capture terrestrial radio
hpr1204 :: My Magnatune Downloader hosted by Dave Morriss
How I download albums from Magnatune with Bash and Perl scripts
hpr1197 :: What I do with bash scripts hosted by Jon Kulp
Some personal anecdotes on writing Bash scripts
hpr598 :: Bash Scripting: Episode 2 Command Line Basics hosted by Ken Fallon
Introduction to the man, info, and appropos commands, among other basics
hpr562 :: Introduction to bash scripting hosted by Ken Fallon
Introduction to bash scripting, with quick explanations of many adjacent concepts
hpr543 :: Xoke's Podcasting Script hosted by Xoke
An introduction to a script for recording podcasts
hpr531 :: bash loops hosted by Ken Fallon
While aboard an Airbus 320, Ken Fallon describes loops that are available in BASH