Mitch Frazier

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Mitch Frazier is an embedded systems programmer at Emerson Electric Co. Mitch has been a contributor to and a friend of Linux Journal since the early 2000s.

Articles by Mitch Frazier
The Bash Trap Command
August 7, 2019
Job Control: the Bash Feature You Only Think You Don't Need
July 25, 2019
What The @#$%&! (Heck) is this #! (Hash-Bang) Thingy In My Bash Script
May 10, 2019
Pattern Matching In Bash
April 15, 2019
Cat-Proofing Your Screen Locker with Bash
February 20, 2019
Bash's Built-in printf Function
January 16, 2019
Removing Duplicate PATH Entries: Reboot
December 20, 2018
Removing Duplicate PATH Entries, Part II: the Rise of Perl
December 4, 2018
Auto-Download Linux Journal Each Month
November 30, 2018
What's New in Bash Parameter Expansion
November 20, 2018
Removing Duplicate PATH Entries
November 9, 2018
Doing Date Math on the Command Line - Part II
October 19, 2018
Doing Date Math on the Command Line, Part I
October 12, 2018
Investigating Some Unexpected Bash coproc Behavior
September 20, 2018
Writing More Compact Bash Code
September 18, 2018
PostgreSQL 9.0 Released
September 21, 2010
The Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud
September 20, 2010
Dual Boot openSUSE USB Stick Installer
September 1, 2010
Bash Co-Processes
July 27, 2010
Bash Redirections Using Exec
June 11, 2010
Globstar: New Bash Globbing Option
May 11, 2010
Axigen Mail Server
May 1, 2010
Bash Associative Arrays
April 28, 2010
Bash: Handling Command Not Found
April 23, 2010
Overlay Images on Video Using MPlayer and MEncoder
April 8, 2010
More Background Manipulation with the GIMP
April 6, 2010
Use ssh_config To Simplify Your Life
March 25, 2010
Update on Controlling Konsole via DBUS
February 23, 2010
Adding a New Background to an Image with the GIMP
February 18, 2010
Determine If Shell Input is Coming From the Terminal or From a Pipe
February 10, 2010
Start and Control konsole with DBUS
February 2, 2010
Activate Windows Without Losing Your Selected Text
December 31, 2009
Brain + Keyboard = T-Shirt
December 3, 2009
Add Custom Buttons To Thunderbird
December 2, 2009
Custom Toolbar Buttons for Thunderbird
December 2, 2009
Verify Your Downloaded ISO Images Before Burning Them
November 24, 2009
More Fun With Bash Quoting
November 19, 2009
Renaming Groups of Files From the Command Line
November 18, 2009
Package Management With Zypper
November 5, 2009
More Bash Redirections
October 6, 2009
Add Bookmarks for Changing Directories in Konsole
October 2, 2009
More on Using Bash's Built-in /dev/tcp File (TCP/IP)
September 30, 2009
Create Image Galleries With Konqueror
September 24, 2009
Synthesizing Voice From the Command Line
September 23, 2009
Use curl to Monitor Your Vonage Phone Bill
September 17, 2009
Add Location Shortcuts to the KDE Open File Dialog
September 16, 2009
Returning Values from Bash Functions
September 11, 2009
Normalizing Path Names with Bash
September 3, 2009
Bash Quoting
August 26, 2009
Using Regular ftp With Konqueror
August 26, 2009
Using sftp With Konqueror
August 25, 2009
Name Kompletion in Konqueror
August 24, 2009
Reading Multiple Files with Bash
August 21, 2009
Change Your KPowersave Scheme from the Command Line with Dcop
August 13, 2009
More Debt Watching from the Command Line
August 13, 2009
Copy Text and Files to the X Clipboard from the Command Line
July 30, 2009
Capturing Video (How I Did It)
July 30, 2009
Convert SpreadSheets to CSV files with Python and pyuno, Part 1v2
July 21, 2009
Add a Watermark to a Video with ffmpeg
July 15, 2009
Detaching Your Tabs in Firefox 3.5
July 9, 2009
Celebrate the 4th of July From the Command Line
July 2, 2009
Fireworks from the Command Line
July 2, 2009
Getting User Input in a Shell Script
June 29, 2009
Asking a Yes/No Question from a Bash Script
June 26, 2009
Change the Way Windows Are Focused
June 18, 2009
Creating Secure Tunnels With ssh
June 16, 2009
Firefox Addon: It's All Text
June 10, 2009
Creating a Bash Spinner
June 9, 2009
Searching PDF Files With grep
June 4, 2009
Firefox Addon: Nuke Everything
May 28, 2009
More on Using the Bash Complete Command
May 26, 2009
Using the Bash complete Command
May 15, 2009
Protect Your PostScript Files from Being Converted to PDF
May 13, 2009
Use the Bash trap Statement to Clean Up Temporary Files
May 5, 2009
More Working with CSV Files from the Command Line
May 4, 2009
Working with CSV Files from the Command Line
April 30, 2009
The Bash declare Statement
April 21, 2009
Avoid ScreenSaver Activation via KPowersave
April 20, 2009
Use DCOP to Control Applications
April 8, 2009
Start and Control konsole with DCOP
April 7, 2009
Find Files with the find Command
March 31, 2009
Using Named Pipes (FIFOs) with Bash
March 27, 2009
Taking Snapshots of Windows with Open Menus
March 18, 2009
LinuxJournal.com's daily Tech Tip videos contest
March 12, 2009
Watch the National Debt from the Command Line
March 11, 2009
Sync Firefox from the Command Line
March 6, 2009
Monitor CPU Speed with Gkfreq Plugin for Gkrellm
March 5, 2009
Install Software from the Command Line in openSUSE
February 25, 2009
Add a Binary Payload to your Shell Scripts
February 19, 2009
Extract the MP3 Audio Portion of a Video
February 18, 2009
Create an Image Montage and a Corresponding HTML Area Map
February 13, 2009
Happy 15th Birthday Linux Journal!
February 10, 2009
Python (pyuno) "Hello World" Addon for OpenOffice
February 6, 2009
Accented Characters with KDE
February 5, 2009
Have KDE Ask for your SSH Passphrase on Login
February 2, 2009
Use CURL to Login to Websites with a Script
January 28, 2009
Add Your City To Linux's List of Time Zones
January 28, 2009
Setup Postfix to Login to Your Email Account and Deliver Mail
January 23, 2009
How-to Save a Flash Video
January 21, 2009
Convert SpreadSheets to CSV files with Python and pyuno, Part 2
January 14, 2009