When you want to reuse functions in multiple scripts you can create a library which allows you to access those created functions.
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Exercise 4: Starting with awk Scripts
Using awk scripts expands the possibilities with awk and provides an easy way to repeat searches on a number of files.
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Scripting User Commands in Bash
How to use a Bash Shell script to record the activity of users. This
script is useful in rebuilding the actions of users as they work at
the command line.
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Gimp FX Foundry: 115 Scripts Ready for Gimp 2.6
There are lots of scripts to the Gimp, which simplifies your image editing. Gimp FX Foundry has merged a whole lot of different scripts to a collection and where you will find the most you will ever need for your image editing.
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Patterns and string processing in shell scripts
Shell programming is heavily dependent on string processing. The term string is used generically to refer to any sequence of characters; typical examples of strings might be a line of input or a single argument to a command. Users enter responses to prompts, file names are generated, and commands produce output.
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Where Do We Go From Here? A Possible New Home For This Linux And Unix Blog
It may be time to pull up stakes and move to a new host. We humbly ask for your input.
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Pimp your Amarok: 13 Scripts You Should Know About
Amarok is a very intuitive and user friendly music player, it makes playing music on your PC even more fun. It has tons of options that would put any other player to shame. Right out of the box it can fetch lyrics, album covers from Amazon, and artist bios from Wikipedia!
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Extend Amarok with useful scripts
Amarok is a popular audio player under Linux. It can manage external storage devices, transfer music to your iPod, display lyrics, and play various formats. Although Amarok supports scripts to extend its functionality, not many users know about the powerful features that these simple plugins can provide.
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Using Find to Locate and Report on Large Files
Backups are essential, and so is the reducing the time needed to perform those backups. Many’s the time I have sat waiting for a backup to complete only to remember that I had a link to a large set of files, or a bunch of ISO files in the ./download directory, and had to migrate those over to somewhere else and restart the backup.
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Work the Shell - 007's Favorite Game: "Baccarat"?
Well, I can't create a casino as a shell script, and I certainly can't create either a secret agent or a gorgeous female sidekick, but I can create a Baccarat game as a shell script. Heck, it's probably the first time anyone's even attempted it!
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