Here are some basic skills to get started with bash, one of the best shells for preparing and using scripts on Linux.

A recent post about debugging constructs surprised me. There were quite a few comments about how you didn’t need a debugger, as long as you had printf. For that matter, we’ve all debugg… ...

Add the #!/bin/bash line as the first line of your script Run chmod +x $ {script_filename} to give the file executable permission Execute the file by calling it directly (with path), i.e.

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A simple bash script to automatically run common linux admininstrative tasks using bash menus . The script works by prompting the administrator to select the desired administrative task, the script ...

Here are some steps you can take to ensure that your bash scripts work as intended and are easy to update.

You've seen it a million times—the hash-bang (#!) line at the top of a script—whether it be Bash, Python, Perl or some other scripting language. And, I'm sure you know what its purpose is: it ...

I run this Bash script every morning via cron on a personal server in my house. The images are copied to the /comics directory on my Web server. I wrote a simple static Web page to display the Web ...