bash

Every few months I find myself needing a fresh, strong password for a new server, a database user,…

When I first started writing Bash scripts, I leaned on long chains of if/elif/else for everything. It worked,…

The first time I had to pull a single field out of a JSON API response inside a…

I download files from the command line more times a day than I’d like to admit — installers,…

I’ll admit upfront: Bash is not the tool most people reach for when they think “web scraping.” Python…

One of the most useful things I’ve automated with Bash is email alerts — a backup script that…

Whenever I’m debugging a slow server, writing a health-check script, or just building a status dashboard, the first…

Dates and times show up in almost every script I write — timestamping log entries, naming backup files,…

Random numbers show up in more of my scripts than I initially expected — generating test data, picking…

Bash gets a bad reputation for math, and honestly, it’s a little deserved — the shell’s built-in arithmetic…