In a previous article I have shown how to handle the D-Bus resources provided in general and in particular by the Konsole and Yakuake D-Bus services, and take advantage of them in a Bash script. This time we will explore more services that provide useful features to embed in our Bash scripts.
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The Bourne again shell from Stephen Bourne
After using the procedure explained for years in the upgrade with zypper article, I decided to collect all these steps in a practical script, which take care of all the statuses and, when needed, asks for confirmations, or suggests how to proceed manually in particular situations.
In a previous article I introduced the DBus technology and provided some examples built around the Klipper service to integrate the clipboard area within our scripts.
Aliases are one of the most interesting features provided by a Bash shell, and probably the last to be regularly adopted. Usually, they are intended as a way to create shortcuts to execute the most used commands followed by the options that are not assumed by default from the command itself. However, there is a more appealing way to write them that boost our productivity when executing either frequent or infrequent tasks.
Speaking about the several ways that a Linux system offers to users to create custom automation, there is a software technology that hides under the hoods of modern desktop environments, D-Bus. To make parallelism, in the same way we use piping | the output from a shell command to the input of another, we might altogether find interesting to get some info from an application running on our DE, no matter if it is a GUI application or an application running in the background, and use it in our scripts.
