A few months ago I wanted to keep track of changes on a webpage... and wrote a script to do so. Later I discovered there were navigator plugins that did exactly that... But the fun in writing your own script is far greater than an anonymous script someone did.

So what's new in bash? A bunch of things, though most of them tend to be rather small. In this series we will look at features that, I feel, are of the most use to ordinary shell users starting with a couple of the small ones.

In this article I’d like to explain the top one-liners from the commandlinefu.com. It’s a user-driven website where people get to choose the best and most useful shell one-liners.

Making use of previously entered commands can help you remember the location of files previously edited, canremove the need to re-enter long path names and can save you a lot of typing mistakes.

How to use Environment variables and How they are behave in the linux Environment.

BashStyle-NG is a graphical Tool for changing the Bash’s behaviour and look’n'feel. Aswell as Readline’s, Nano’s and Vim’s.

Everybody's seen redirection in bash commands, that's pretty common, but bash also allows you to define redirections when you define functions. This causes the redirections to be evaluated/executed whenever the function is called. This feature doesn't really give you any new features, just another way to express existing features.

One of the most common structures in programming is the Do Loop. The version that I’m going to show today is the While Do Loop. This post shows how to use the basic structure of the While Do loop in a Bash script.