Bash functions are essentially reusable wrappers around commands. You can use them to define complex command pipelines or to perform some detailed work and echo the result. They accept arguments and ...

At a basic level, parameter expansion means changing Bash syntax into a value—expanding it. For example: echo "$foo" This simple variable turns into its assigned value. However, ...

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dismissed the idea that his presence could be seen as an attempt to intimidate the court on a case that President Trump considers vital to his economic policy. By ...

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Abstract: Regex-dependent string functions are string functions that take regular expressions (regexes) as parameters and are popular means of manipulating strings. They are frequently used for, e.g., ...

As a person with a chronic illness, I'm no stranger to bloodwork. I used to pore over my lab results, googling the various meanings, and trying not to panic when a test fell out of range. Function ...

With tuples, we can easily construct special kinds of arrays, where elements are of fixed types with respect to an index or position. Tuples extend the capabilities of the array data type. With tuples ...