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 will deal with how to pass whitespace as a parameter to a function in bash shell scripting. Pre-requisites Understanding bash whitespace quotation and backslash escaped characters Understanding IFS and how to modify it and its effects Setup Let’s make a shell script. In your favourite editor type #!/bin/bash And save it somewhere as…
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…