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

We often write quick bash scripts and judging by the comments, half of us use bash or a similar shell to pop out quick, useful scripts, and half of us think that’s an abomination, and you should only ...

A shell script is a text file that contains a sequence of commands for a Unix-based operating system (OS). It's called a shell script because it combines a sequence of commands in a file that would ...

I wrote a shell script, and it worked on my local machine. When I put it into automated execution, it failed.Even when I ...

If you don't love the shell you're using on your Linux system, change it! There are plenty, including bash, fish, ksh, tcsh, zsh. There are quite a few shells on Linux system and more that can be ...

When I first started using Linux back in 1997, it was not easy. There was a lot of command line work to do, and the GUIs weren’t exactly user-friendly. Even keeping my 33.6K modem online was a ...