In this how-to we shall take our first steps into creating Bash scripts with three example projects. The first is the ...

Copying files and directories using the Linux command line is efficient and can be used while sitting at the machine or when ...

How to use a Bash script for-loop for system administration ... to that host is working and try again. Here is another sample script which connects to a system, stops a service, deletes a file ...

This script contains any actions that you'd wish to be performed on the installation system, make directories, uncompress files, run system commands, etc. For the example I will create a directory and ...

If you are a traditional programmer, using bash for scripting may seem limiting sometimes ... Strings are a good example. You don’t think of bash as a string manipulation language, but it ...

Bash is the terminal that opens when you press Ctr-Alt-T on ... Between the descriptions herein and the sample scripts, you should be able to adopt these techniques to a range of codecs and encoding ...

it is never generated by the system. The most common use of the trap command though is to trap the bash-generated psuedo-signal named EXIT. Say, for example, that you have a script that creates a ...

While bash scripting is often maligned and not without reason, it is very flexible and powerful, as this example shows. It is dead easy to embed files in a script and that opens up a lot of ...

The bash script described here can change Linux systems ... focusses on making sure that the correct settings are used. For example, it collects the 36-charater universally unique identifier ...

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, ...