In this article, I'm going to show you a number of simple, yet highly useful tricks that will make your scripting life easier. True, this article may appeal to the more geeky segment of my readers, but there's no reason to stop reading.

Bash is the default command line interface for many Linux distributions and a powerful scripting language. Here are some suggestions that will keep your Bash scripts efficient and lean. Feel free to comment with your own suggestions.

Happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy the turkey :) Description not long enough? Really "Really" enjoy the turkey ;)

The devil they say is in details, even the simple Bash path variable can open some security problems on your box. Every Bash documentation out there warns us not leave '.' in the path (it matches current directory). They however don't seems to mention that leaving a dangling ':' (colon) at the beginning or the end of Bash $PATH does create the same security vulnerability.

Simple script to let you know what's on local TV right now.

Impress your friends with fancy alternative foreign words for the banal English ones you use everyday ;)

A quick script to pull up famous quotations based on keywords or phrased you provide on the Unix or Linux CLI.