hands on If you're building a website that will eventually be hosted on a Linux server (as so many are), you have a couple of ...

Homebrew Is Available For Linux Too . As someone who has never used macOS before, I used to think that Homebrew was an exclusive product for Mac users. It always seemed like one o ...

When writing scripts, it’s important to know how to test and validate variables. You may need to verify that required arguments are provided and that the values match what is needed.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to write Bash scripts that run on Ubuntu and encode and package multiple files to HLS/DASH output using open-source tools FFmpeg and Bento4. You’ll learn how to ...

Shell scripting is an often forgotten programming environment, relegated to simple automation tasks and little else. In fact, it’s possible to achieve much more complex tasks in the shell.

If you’re using Linux to host VirtualBox VMs, it’s really quite simple–you create bash scripts to manage the starting, stopping, and resuming of those virtual machines.

Creating a script on a Unix or Linux system can be dead easy or surprisingly complex; it all depends on how much you’re trying to get the script to do. In this post, we look at scripting basics ...

That means if your script is careful to exit, you can add as much “garbage” to the end of it as you like. The shell will never look at it, so it’s possible to store the payload there.

This story, “ Nuking Linux servers, one script at a time,” was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Read more of Paul Venezia’s The Deep End blog at InfoWorld.com.