I use simple bash scripts to automate the boring stuff in Linux. Here's what they are and how they work.

I was just trying to figure out the best way to automate a routine for mailbox users. This is on a (Fedora) system with virtual domain hosting. The process is fairly simple, whether adding or removing ...

I have the following simple shell script that is doing some weird behavior. The line that echoes out the fileToLoad and the first paramter appears as it should in a file called OraLoad_log.txt, ...

Last time, I talked about what's known informally as l33t-speak, a series of letter and letter-pair substitutions that marks the jargon of the hacker elite (or some subset of hacker elite, because I'm ...

Between every IT administrator and the end users they support lie miles and miles of code. Most IT administrators are familiar, to some degree, with shell scripting. For the small set of ...