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…
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,…