I’m a retired social worker. I used to help clients to write scripts to prepare for difficult conversations. I thought about the letter from the massage client with an overly talkative therapist ...

Imagine that you want to output multiple lines of text in Bash, or any shell script. Maybe it’s for a help string for a particularly convoluted shell script you’re writing. You could have a separate ...

There are many dialog programs out there, Zenity, Kdialog, xdialog, etc. I love programs like these. They make it so easy to spice up a shell script with a little GUI action. Today I'm going to go ...