I replaced all my bash scripts with Python. Here’s what improved, what broke, and why the switch changed my workflow.

You use the chmod command to set each of these permissions. To see what permissions have been set on a file or directory, we ...

To start your journey with the Linux command line, it's important to know a few things before diving in. These aspects of the terminal are fundamental to getting the most out of the tool. Shall we ...

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#!/bin/bash backed_up=0 for file in ~/linux/*; do cp -u "$file" ~/linux/backup; ((backed_up++)) done echo "Files backed up: $backed_up" This finds the file in given ...

It also saves a log in the same location as the backup file, including: Logging the start and end time plus how long the backup took. Logging every file that was ...

Abstract: The structure of large-scale open source software is complicated, which can be regarded as a collection of software packages, components, modules, subsystems, and their relationships. In ...