Podcast Episodes

PBS 155 – Introducing JSON Processing from the Shell with `jq`

After our annual break from Programming By Stealth that happens at an unknown time for an unknown length every single year, Bart and I are back with …

2 years, 10 months ago

PBS 154 — Bash: Expansions & Brackets Redux

Bart Busschots joins us for Programming By Stealth with the final installment of our miniseries on Bash. He explains a few new concepts, but the real…

3 years ago

PBS 153 – Bash: Functions & Scope

In Programming By Stealth, we've come to the end of our journey with Bash. I'll be sad to have it complete because as I tell Bart in this episode, I'…

3 years, 1 month ago

PBS 152B of X — Bash: xargs & Easier Arithmetic

In Programming By Stealth 152A Bart and I decided to hold off on the middle of the lesson he'd written up. That middle bit where he said to "put a pi…

3 years, 2 months ago

PBS 152A of X — Bash: xargs & Easier Arithmetic

I don't always make the time to pre-read the shownotes for Programming By Stealth but I never regret when I do make the time. That was especially tru…

3 years, 3 months ago

PBS 151 of X — Bash: Printf and More

This week's Programming By Stealth wasn't a heavy lift but I managed to get confused a couple of times anyway so expect lots of questions from me in …

3 years, 3 months ago

PBS 150 of X – Bash Script Plumbing (Take Two)

When Bart and I recorded PBS 150 on Bash Script Terminal Plumbing, neither of us was happy with it. I got very confused in the middle, and Bart decid…

3 years, 4 months ago

PBS 150 of X – Bash Script Plumbing

Bart and I took a few minutes upfront to high-five each other for 150 episodes of the Programming By Stealth Podcast. Then we quickly got to work.

Ba…

3 years, 4 months ago

PBS 149 of X — Better Arguments with POSIX Special Variables and Options

In this rather mind-bendy episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots takes into the weird world of POSIX special variables and options. He ref…

3 years, 5 months ago

PBS 148 – A Bash Potpourri (Subshells, Relative Paths & More)

This week's Programming By Stealth is a great lesson on how no matter how long you've been coding, you'll still get caught out from time to time and …

3 years, 6 months ago