Shell scripting is a lot more powerful than many people realize. With the right commands, shell scripting can automate many tasks and even make life easier for the user. Here's why you shouldn't sleep ...

August 8, 2020 Every time we publish a Linux hack that uses a shell script, someone will chime in about how awful it is to program shell scripts.

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 ...

Learning scripting is a valuable skill, with Python being the most popular language, potentially boosting career prospects. You might think that Linux scripting might only be for wizards.

Shell scripting is one of those skills that are absolutely invaluable on especially UNIX and BSD-based systems like the BSDs, the two zillion Linux distributions as well as MacOS. Yet not every ...

The first line The first line of a bash script is nearly always #!/bin/bash. This line ensures that the bash shell will be used to run the commands.

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

The point of using a script to build your NCAA March Madness basket bracket isn't to take away the fun of the game. On the contrary, since I don't have much familiarity with basketball, building my ...

If you're not yet comfortable with writing scripts on Unix and Linux systems, this post might get you off to a healthy start.

Yes, now with Bash Shell in Windows 11 and Windows 10, you can now create and run Bash shell scripts and incorporate Bash commands into a Windows batch file or PowerShell script.