Bash backslash escaped characters and whitespace can be a headache if not understood properly. This post will endeavour to explore whitespace and backslash escaped characters with practical examples. What are Backslash Escaped Characters These are character sequences that, in certain cases, indicate a special character that is, usually, hard to see for the human reader,…
This post is part of an educational series on building a shell script to graphically display the structure of a directory. Previously We broke down Dem Pilafian’s one line command to display a tree of a directory We broke down Dem Pilafian’s script that uses the one line command We modified the one line to…
This post is part of an educational series on building a shell script to graphically display the structure of a directory. Previously We broke down Dem Pilafian’s one line command to display a tree of a directory We broke down Dem Pilafian’s script that uses the one line command We modified the one line to…
This is a series of posts detailing different methods of printing out a graphical representation of a tree in using a bash shell script. It culminates in the building of a recursive shell script. Breaking down Dem Pilafian’s one line command to display a tree of a directory Breaking down Dem Pilafian’s script that uses…