It is easy to dismiss bash — the typical Linux shell program — as just a command prompt that allows scripting. Bash, however, is a full-blown programming language. I wouldn’t pres… ...

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.

If you're not yet comfortable with writing scripts on Unix and Linux systems, this post might get you off to a healthy start.

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… ...

But fortunately, the NCAA ranks the teams for you, so I wrote a Bash script that filled out my March Madness bracket for me. Since teams were ranked 1–16, I used a "D16" method borrowed from tabletop ...

Update your Fedora 29 system, add two important repositories, and install a ridiculous amount of useful software and audio / video codecs. With a single, easy-to-use script.

It's a bash script for installing a customized Arch Linux system that automates the entire process after you've edited the configuration file with your preferences.

With scripts, the story is somewhat different. When you write for a script-based medium, the physical format of the script dictates a series of storytelling conventions that are enforced by the ...