This post is intended to help new Linux users get comfortable with scripting and learn some ways to ensure their scripts are both reliable and easily maintained.

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

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.

Bash scripts have been around since the humble beginnings of Linux. Here's how to get started with them.

Simply put, a Shell Script is a program that is run by a UNIX/Linux shell. It is a file that contains a series of commands which are executed sequentially as if they were entered on the command line ...

If you are a traditional programmer, using bash for scripting may seem limiting sometimes, but for certain tasks, bash can be very productive. It turns out, some of the limits of bash are really ...

Using RH7.0, I've set up a bash script called 'dlist' which is just an 'ls' with the '-s and -h' switches appended. This gives you your normal ls output, with total size of the directory contents ...

I've been trying to write a bash script lately, and most things are going ok with the exception of the following.I am trying to test the return value of the previous command with the following ...

Learning to use write basic scripts with a language like Python or Bash can save you a lot of time on everything from organizing your files, editing text documents, and everything in between.