How to create the backup This backup will come by way of a bash script. It’s much easier than you think. The first thing we need to know is the name of the VM to be backed up.

However, you can easily create a shell script that contains a file — even an archive of many files — and then retrieve the file and act on it at run time.

Jack Wallen shows you how to install and use this handy script. Installing SSL certificates isn’t difficult, but it’s a process every Linux administrator will have to take on at some point in ...

Exiting a script and logging out are very different, but sometimes you may need to log out of your Linux system from within a script. Here's how to do it.

In a real scenario, this could be anything like downloading files, creating backup, validating user input, etc. Also, to give an example we are assuming only four steps in our script below which is ...

The tmux tool is one of a number of Linux terminal window splitters that allow you to run commands in adjacent (up/down, right/left or both) panes so that you can easily use the output in one pane ...

Create a bootable USB stick from Linux I was keeping the best for last. If you are running Linux, you can use the dd command (as in the instructions for macOS above) to create the bootable drive.