I created the following functions which I found to be the easiest way to escape all illegal characters. To escape all illegal (non alphanumeric)...

*note: Solaris egrep flag = "-e" Linux egrep flag = "-E" To test a string whether or not it is...

There are situations where when performing an ls -Al displays files with spaces....

I frequently find times when I routinely search for a specific process by performing # ps -ef |grep <name> After typing this numerous...