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Solve Bash blind spots by embedding other scripting languages into your Bash scripts to get the features you need. Pete shows you solutions for floating-point math, charting, GUIs, and hardware integration.

Use tools such as grep and sed to find and fix broken links.

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.