Suppose you have a series of Linux commands, which you need to repeat multiple times. You can either write the commands 1,000 times and curse your fate, or you can write a small and simple bash script ...

A for loop is a type of control structure commonly used in programming languages to perform repetitive tasks. In a Linux Bash shell script, the for loop is used to iterate through a set of values and ...

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.

It's not hard to create and run a shell script in Linux distros like Ubuntu, but there are a few non-obvious pitfalls you need to avoid. Here's a quick example of how to execute a script in Linux.

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 ...