This article aims to explore these scripting languages, offering practical examples and guidance to harness their potential effectively. Bash (Bourne Again SHell) is the default shell on most Linux ...

It is easy to dismiss bash — the typical Linux shell program — as just ... but we still use the older ways. For example: Don’t think bash is a programming language? It has arrays, loops ...

If you're not yet comfortable with writing scripts on Unix and Linux systems, this post might get you off to a healthy start. Creating a script on a Unix or Linux system can be dead easy or ...

Dive into the world of Linux shell scripting with this hands-on guide. If you’re comfortable using the command line on Unix or Linux but haven’t fully explored Bash, this book is for you.

Just create a file, change the extension to .bat, and either call the script in PowerShell or double click to execute it. Windows users are spoiled. Linux users can create and run shell scripts too, ...

Although shell scripting is certainly not a feature ... The only thing you need to follow along with my example is two Linux machines and a user with sudo privileges. I’ll be demonstrating ...

This article is reprinted from the book A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming 3rd edition, with permission of the author and publisher ...