Jack Wallen shows how you can create a Linux shell script that requires a password without having to save a password within the script. Linux is the most flexible ...

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

Shell scripts enable every level of system administration and user interaction on Unix and Linux systems. Several system administration tasks can be automated with shell scripts. Disaster recovery ...

At times, we need to write shell scripts that are interactive and user executing them need to monitor the progress. For such requirements, we can implement a simple progress bar that gives an idea ...

Imagine that you want to output multiple lines of text in Bash, or any shell script. Maybe it’s for a help string for a particularly convoluted shell script you’re writing. You could have a separate ...

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 ...

One of the delights in Bash, zsh, or whichever shell tickles your fancy in your OSS distribution of choice, is the ease of which you can use scripts. These can be shell scripts, or use the Perl, ...

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

What’s the difference between programming and scripting anyway? There are a billion variations of this question posted across the internet and the answer is not always as simple as it might seem. The ...