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If you're not yet comfortable with writing scripts on Unix and Linux systems, this post might get you off to a healthy start.
An easy step-by-step guide to the Bash command-line shell and shell scripting ...
Once a script is prepared and tested, you can get a significant task completed simply by typing the script's name followed by any required arguments.
Bash scripting is every Linux administrator's Swiss Army knife. Learn how using a for-loop in conjunction with Bash scripts can produce powerful results.
A recent post about debugging constructs surprised me. There were quite a few comments about how you didn’t need a debugger, as long as you had printf. For that matter, we’ve all debugg… ...
If you save the script as sound.sh and run it directly passing the name of a sound file it will play the file at the current volume, then it raises the volume and plays it again, and finally it ...
I'm tweaking this script, and I'm having a lot of trouble testing my changes. It seems like my shell, Bash, is not respecting whitespace. Could someone help me? Basically, I have a script that ...
To change a password in Linux through a Bash script, he two scripts that are most important are 'Create Users' and 'Change Passwords Shell' scripts, for the system admin which regularly uses the mail ...
Yes, now with Bash Shell in Windows 11 and Windows 10, you can now create and run Bash shell scripts and incorporate Bash commands into a Windows batch file or PowerShell script.
Huh? Windows? Um... OK, yes the Scripting Guy Games are for Windows. But what if we did it for Linux. What sort of meaty script challenge could we come up with? Certainly something more challenging ...