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With lines.txt: printf '(%s)\n' "one two" "three four five" echo "How you doin'?" Running: while read -r line; do eval command=($line) command+=("arg with spaces" "other arg") "${c…

Bash handles spaces just fine. # store the command in an array X=(echo "A B") # execute the command "${X[@]}" Yields: A B

Meanwhile, UPS's web site has mostly gone down. Their home page now reads "Sorry! We Can’t Find That Page. Looks like the page you’re trying to find may have been moved or deleted.…

The video in the linked page says that getopts only supports short options.

If you refer to my example above, you'll find that Bash's native "getopts" handles long options just fine. It accepts short option `-`, with an argument. This handles --long-option…

Handling command-line arguments in Bash is easy. Bash's `getopts` handles short and long arguments gnu-style without any problem, out of the box, without any need for libraries or …

It turns out they are very similar to binary loadlifters in most respects.

Bash `getopts` handles short and long arguments gnu-style without any problem. The following code handles args like "-h", "-i $input-file", "-i$input-file", "--in=$input-file", and…

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Like @bxparks, I have a template for my bash scripts command-line parsing, but I like to stick to GNU-style options and I find that Bash's getopts command handles all these cases w…

It would not be difficult. Nuclear reactors could provide power almost indefinitely. Greenhouses could maintain plant life. Animals could be bred and slaughtered. A quick survey wo…

I use GraphViz to produce a visual, browsable version of the NIEM data model. GraphViz can output images and HTML maps, which allows easy building of clickable web pages with hover…

My go-to would be tar: `$ tar -C $source-dir -c . | tar -C $dest-dir -x`

Why not use bash's printf %q? string=$(printf ' %q' "${array[@]}")

Pandoc calls these "Line blocks": https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#line-blocks

TCL had an amazing architecture for someone who was working in C. In C, you'd (1) create an instance of a TCL interpreter, (2) register your C functions with the TCL interpreter, a…