You need to package up a bunch of files, send them somewhere, and do something with them at the destination. It isn’t an uncommon scenario. The obvious answer is to create an archive — a zip ...

In this post I'll show you how to create a self extracting bash script to automate the installation of files on your system. This script requires coreutils (for cat, tail), awk, gzip, tar and bash.

You’ll also learn how to apply this script to multiple files in a folder and how to customize file names with the source file and selected variables. Finally, I’ll show you how to store the output ...