Shell Scripting is defined as an open-source program that’s run by Linux or Unix shell. Through shell scripting, you can write commands to be executed by the shell. Lengthy and repetitive commands are ...

Creating users. For this, we will be using the useradd command. This command is pretty flexible and allows you to create users who can log in or even users who cannot (when creating a user for a ...

Windows users are spoiled. Linux users can create and run shell scripts too, with a little more effort. Run shell scripts in Linux. If you want to create a script and run it in Ubuntu, a few extra ...

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.

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.

The obvious answer is to create an archive — a zip or tar file, maybe — and include a shell script that you have to tell the user to run after unpacking. That may be obvious, but it assumes a ...

How to create users and groups in Linux from the command line Written by Jack Wallen, Contributing Writer July 26, 2022 at 7:55 a.m. PT Linux is a multi-user environment, which means more than one ...