What is the meaning of IFS in Bash Shell Script ?

bash - input field separator

The full form of IFS is “Internal Field Separator” alternatively based on its functionality this is also … Read more

How to use getopts to Accept Variable Arguments for Bash Script ?

Shell_Command_Args

getopts is a built-in Unix shell command for parsing command-line arguments. It is designed to process command … Read more

How to Pass Command Line Arguments to Shell Script ?

Shell_Command_Args

getopts allows you to accept command line arguments for the bash script, below is demo script which … Read more

How to Check if File Exists using Bash Script ?

Check if File Exist in Bash

If we are processing certain file using bash shell script, its necessary to make sure the file … Read more

How to read a file Line by Line in Bash Script ?

Shell Script

When you want to process some large data from a text file with one line at a … Read more

How to Count number of lines in a file in Linux ?

When you are just interested into number of lines in a file to make some decision based … Read more

How To Clear Shell History In Ubuntu Linux ?

When you type something on linux shell, by default Linux save the commands what you type as … Read more

How to extract only specific files from tar.bz2 / tar.gz in Linux ?

The following shell script demos the creation of archive / tar and then use commands to check … Read more