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A gentle introduction to Bash functions

You will most often use Bash functions to make your shell life easier; instead of typing out complex command pipelines, ...
If you are writing a program that has a technical user base, it is a nice touch to make the program scriptable. In fact, you might want to do the hard work in a programming language and then use your ...
By defining Microsoft PowerShell functions within PowerShell modules, you can organize your scripts, avoid duplicating code, ...
For this article, I thought it would be beneficial to go back to some basics of shell scripting and look at how functions work. Most script writers probably eschew using functions because it's a bit ...
When writing PowerShell scripts, there always seems to come a time when a single script just isn't enough. Although it's important to keep your scripts as simple as possible, it's also important to ...