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The Future of the Korn Shell may be in Dangerous Hands

This post discusses recent events relating to the maintainance and development of the Korn Shell.

Printing Bash or Korn Shell Script Arguments

This post discusses various issues, workarounds and solutions to printing details of arguments (AKA positional parameters) passed to shell scripts via the command line upon invocation of the shell script.

The KSH93 Version String

In this short post, I explain the various parts of the ksh93 version string and show you some useful things you can do with the version string.

Adding and Removing Disks From VMware RHEL7 Guests Without Rebooting

In this post, I show you how to quickly add or delete a virtual disk in a running Red Hat or CentOS guest VM, running on VMware Workstation or VMware Player, without rebooting the guest.

Using PCI.IDS Database to Show PCI Vendor and Device Information in UEFI Shell

In this post, I describe a UEFI shell utility that I developed that displays PCI information including vendor and device descriptions from the PCI.IDS database.