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[ad_1] About the author Alex Sanchez – Alex is the social media, marketing, and syndication specialist for Opensource.com. He’s a multimedia storyteller interested in tech, current events, design, and photography. Outside the office, he enjoys travel, film, and gaming. This month on Opensource.com, we highlighted the many ways to get involved in open source communities in…

[ad_1] In Getting started with shell scripting, I covered the basics of shell scripting by creating a pretty handy “despacer” script to remove bothersome spaces from file names. Now I’ll expand that idea to an application that can swap out other characters, too. This introduces the shift method of parsing options as well as creating…

[ad_1] I was doing some work in the yard and I wanted to know the smallest circle that would fit around a 4×6 inch post. Of course, just as a 2×4 is not 2 inches by 4 inches, a 4×6 post (what they call its “nominal” dimensions) is actually 3.5 inches by 5.5 inches, so this…

[ad_1] The People’s Choice Award recognizes the community’s favorite contributors from 2016. Voting is open from January 23 – 31. Nominees are individuals whose 2016 contributions made a big impact. Some are now members of our Contributors Club, which recognizes writers who have made 4 or more contributions in 12 months. We excluded previous winners, Community…