You can access Windows Subsystem for Linux files using Explorer on Windows 11/10. Open Explorer from WSL Terminal or launch the root from Explorer.

Reading files is no big deal with bash: you just redirect the input to the script or pipe the output of another command into the script, or you could do it inside the script if the file names are ...

File descriptor duplication allows two file descriptors to refer to the same open file. Since read normally reads from stdin and not file descriptor 7 or 8 we need a way to duplicate file descriptor 7 ...

Researchers have open-sourced pa.sh (also called pash), a tool that can dramatically speed up Linux scripts by using parallelization, saving time and without risk of introducing errors.

It is dead easy to embed files in a script and that opens up a lot of flexible options for distributing complex file setups and applications. If you are writing serious bash scripts, we suggest ...

Common errors with for loops One of the most common errors when using scripts bash on GNU/Linux is to read a file line by line by using a for loop (for line in $ (cat file.txt) do. ..). In this ...