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Sometimes Bash quietly hides features that make you stop, blink, and say: “Wait… that’s been there the whole time?! ” This post is about one of those features: Bash knows which function you’re in — and even keeps a call stack . You can use it for logging, debugging, and some truly delightful shell wizardry. Printing the Name of the Current Function If you’re inside a Bash function and want to know…
A Speculative Framework for Inter-Brane Time Displacements Christian Sacks Independent Researcher – no formal physics training 1. Background Brane cosmology posits that our observable universe is a $(3+1)$-dimensional brane embedded within a higher-dimensional bulk . Influential models—such as the Randall–Sundrum scenarios and ekpyrotic (colliding-brane) cosmologies—suggest that gravitational…
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Creating a package manager for BBSes - BSR or BBS Sysop Repository is a tool that will enable you to install BBS doors in the same way you can install packages on your *nix operating system
Over the past day or so, I’ve found myself caught in a deeply emotional and challenging conversation with several friends—fellow believers—about Jesus, violence, and what it means to faithfully follow Christ in a broken world. It’s the kind of discussion that forces you to pause, reflect, and grapple with the deep tension between human instincts for self-preservation and the radical ethic of…
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Learn best practices for safely creating and cleaning up temporary files in your Bash scripts using mktemp, traps, and secure patterns.
Learn how to create interactive, user-friendly command-line menus using select, PS3, and simple loops in Bash.
Learn how to unlock the power of xargs in Bash to build fast, flexible command pipelines without forking too many subshells.
Bash Scripting Sunday #2: Writing a Safe and Robust Bash Script In today’s post, I’d like to give some insight into writing safer scripts using Bash’s built-in options. Why Script Safety Matters A poorly written script can cause unintended data loss, infinite loops, or security vulnerabilities. Writing robust scripts ensures they behave predictably and handle errors gracefully.…
Bash Scripting Sunday #1: Bash Parameter Expansion - Save Time and Avoid Subshells In this entry, I’d like to show you how to use Bash Parameter Expansion to make your life a little easier, your scripts a little quicker, and use less resources. Here’s an example script that isn’t using Bash Parameter Expansion: #!/usr/bin/env bash filename='/path/to/file.txt' echo 'Basename:…
Hotline/KDX Many years ago, long before the internet became, lived an era where some people would run or access bulletin board systems (BBS) and most would use their modem and dial up to a BBS in order to obtain new software, send/receive messages with other people, and generally exist in “online” communities. The BBS was entirely text mode, you would dial up someone’s computer, spend some time…