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

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.

Developing scripts to handle your more complicated tasks can make your efforts on the Linux command line considerably easier and more reliable – at least once the scripts are written and tested.

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.

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… ...

This project contains a Bash script that automates the backup of system logs from the /var/log directory. The script performs the following tasks: Creates a backup of the /var/log directory.

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 ...