Dive into the world of Linux shell scripting with this ... or PHP who want to make the most of shell scripting. This isn’t just another theory-heavy book—you’ll learn by doing.

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 ... which can make a project ...

It isn’t an uncommon scenario. 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.