The FIND function allows you to find a text string within another. It returns the position at which a character or string begins within another text string. The output of the above function will be 5, ...

You will most often use Bash functions to make your shell life easier; instead of typing out complex command pipelines, create a function and inject arguments. You'd place these in your bashrc file, ...

This may fall under the heading of "Don't do that" but did cause me to be slightly curious.<BR><BR>What would happen if you say, created a pointer to a function that took three ints as arguments, but ...