Example: check_aws_cli() uses command -v aws to check if AWS CLI is installed. Redirects output to /dev/null to suppress errors. Syntax: ~/.aws/credentials: Stores AWS keys (e.g., aws_access_key_id, ...

Example: check_aws_cli() uses command -v aws to check if AWS CLI is installed. Redirects output to /dev/null to suppress errors. Syntax: ~/.aws/credentials: Stores AWS keys (e.g., aws_access_key_id, ...

Here are steps you can take to ensure that your bash scripts work as intended and are easy to update. Committing routine and even rarely required tasks to scripts is almost always a big win because ...

We often read (including in the book Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide by Mendel Cooper) that if we pass variable names as parameters to functions, they will be treated as string literals and cannot be ...

Bash functions, unlike functions in most programming languages do not allow you to return a value to the caller. When a bash function ends its return value is its status: zero for success, non-zero ...

and only files matching my_test_here would make it onto do_something. I love the while-read pattern, but it just doesn't feel right that there's no simpler, built-in, idiomatic way to write a function ...