Bash Tips

Collection of Bash tips and tricks

Aug 11, 2019
Searching `man` via pager

TLDR man --pager='less --pattern=" -P pager"' man
Aug 12, 2019
Sanitize input string

TLDR printf '%q\n' 'some th!ng n@$ty'
Aug 12, 2019
Log upgrades via `script` command

TLDR script -ac "sudo apt-get upgrade" "$(date +'%Y-%m-%d')_sudo_apt-get_upgrade.script"
Aug 13, 2019
Heredoc to variable via `read`

TLDR read -r -d '' _var <<EOF