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With one line of Bash code, Pete scrapes the web and builds a desktop notification app to get the daily snow report.

A few lines of shell code and the Gawk scripting language make downloading files off the web a breeze.

With one line of Bash code, you can create a Bash web server for quickly viewing the output from Bash scripts and commands.

The Zenity command-line utility lets you create simple dialog boxes with your own data or with the output of utilities and applications.

How do you find a process running on a Linux system by start time? The question sounds trivial, but the answer is trickier than it first appears.

With some simple Bash commands, you can gather, parse, and filter text data into CSV files ready for your favorite statistical application.

With Bash, keeping a task simple often means using several different tools that all do their jobs well. Here's an easy, effective way to create a notification for when your laptop is unplugged.

With its innovative scripting language, Oil, the Bash-compatible Oil shell aims to make life easier for script developers.

When it comes to working at the command line, using Bash history effectively can save you time. McFly extends the Bash history's features and helps you find past commands more quickly.

Bash is known for admin utilities and text manipulation tools, but the venerable command shell included with most Linux systems also has some powerful commands for manipulating binary data.