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 ...

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 writing serious bash scripts, we suggest you write them carefully. You can even find a “ lint ” program that can test for errors for you.

Jack Wallen shows how you can create a Linux shell script that requires a password without having to save a password within the script.

In that scenario, you fortunately can write a shell script that does the same, but all within the same shell, as [Isabella Bosia] did, with a Bash shell script.