John Robertson articles - 10 total
TUI select fn
Those of you familiar with bash's select builtin know that the automated layout of choices is a nic...
Where is Your Data?
Introduction Making source code easier to read without significantly increasing its size i...
Bash++ Parsing
Introduction This morning when I took a walk with my son, I asked him to come up with a Ba...
CLI and Streams
Introduction For those who are new to *nix shells like Bash, the underlying framework of s...
Bash++ Classes
Introduction Bash is an interpreted language not often associated with object oriented pro...
Bash++ Recursion
In a previous post I introduced the return stack facility for Bash. Now I present an example of how t...
Bash++ Return Stack
Problem To say that Bash has many idiosyncrasies is an understatement. One of the most tro...
Bash++
Announcing the birth of the Bash++ project on Github! The goal of this project is to provide accessib...
Returning an Array from a Bash Function
At first glance it may seem that returning an array from a Bash function is not possible. This is not...
Event Driven Bash
Bash is very useful when it comes to automating system administration tasks. Sometimes you need to...