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 loops One of the major functions that Bash provides is the ability to run commands in a loop. Loops allow you to quickly perform many functions on a file or set of files or just for general ...

Looping in bash is easy. You just use a for or a while statement. But, when you want to process a complete line of text from a file in each pass through the loop, you might have to work a little ...

If you run a bash script while using a different shell, this line ensures that bash—and not your current shell—will run the commands included in the script.

Common errors with for loops One of the most common errors when using scripts bash on GNU/Linux is to read a file line by line by using a for loop (for line in $ (cat file.txt) do. ..). In this ...

Hey,I've got a script that runs a program in a loop. The program writes a file, and the script extracts a value out of that file. If the value doesn't meet the criteria, the loop continues.One ...

Jack Wallen shows you a nifty trick for easily starting, stopping, pausing, and resuming your VirtualBox virtual machines on a headless Linux server.

So I'm writing some scripts to automate pushing keys for SSH to ease deployment of new linux boxes (these are modems running an embedded linux). So far I have a database that stores the info about ...