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

More than just writing help scripts, here documents are useful any time that you want to enter multiple lines and have them piped to a command. We use them most often from the shell directly.

Bash shell scripts written in Java. Contribute to dvreeze/java-shell-scripts development by creating an account on GitHub.

shell-compat-utils: Aids for Compatibility Testing of Scripts This builds programs that can help with testing compatibility of scripts written on GNU/Linux systems with MacOS and BSD. The top-level ...

Bash, the Bourne Again SHell is one of many different shells available to Unix and Linux users (Zsh, Ksh, Tcsh, Fish are others) and is commonly installed with many of the main distributions. We ...

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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 ...

In this post I'll show you how to create a self extracting bash script to automate the installation of files on your system. This script requires coreutils (for cat, tail), awk, gzip, tar and bash.