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Echo tab characters in bash script

How do I echo one or more tab characters using a bash script? When I run this code res=' …

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How to convert DOS/Windows newline (CRLF) to Unix newline (LF) in a Bash script?

How can I programmatically (i.e., not using vi) convert DOS/Windows newlines to Unix? The dos2unix and unix2…

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How to define hash tables in Bash?

What is the equivalent of Python dictionaries but in Bash (should work across OS X and Linux).

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Find all storage devices attached to a Linux machine

I have a need to find all of the writable storage devices attached to a given machine, whether or not …

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How do I know the script file name in a Bash script?

How can I determine the name of the Bash script file inside the script itself? Like if my script is …

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How to kill all processes with a given partial name?

I want to kill all processes that I get by: ps aux | grep my_pattern How to do it? This …

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Propagate all arguments in a bash shell script

I am writing a very simple script that calls another script, and I need to propagate the parameters from my …

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How to check if a file contains a specific string using Bash

I want to check if a file contains a specific string or not in bash. I used this script, but …

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Read lines from a file into a Bash array

I am trying to read a file containing lines into a Bash array. I have tried the following so far: …

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Get file directory path from file path

In Bash, if VAR="/home/me/mydir/file.c", how do I get "/home/me/mydir"?

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