A program (binary, or executable) is a file on disk somewhere, in a recognized format. Common formats include ELF on Linux, ...

Scripts should have names that describe what they do. For example, a good name for the following script might be “square” because it provides the square of whatever number is entered on the ...

For example, using “set -o noglob” will prevent bash from expanding wildcards. Of course, if you need wildcards, you can’t do this — at least not for the part of the script that uses them.

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After running the script, you will see an output folder with a Sintel subfolder and the output file named sintel _ 1080p _ 3M _ ultrafast.mp4. Encoding Multiple Files in a Folder in Bash These last ...

Note that if you send a kill -9 to your script, it will not execute the EXIT trap before exiting. The other possible thing that you might like to use the trap command for is to catch Ctrl-C so that ...

Over the years, I've developed the mantra, “If I have to do it more than once, I write a script to do it.” For example, if I need to check the health of my servers each morning, I'd write a bash ...

Exiting a script and logging out are very different, but sometimes you may need to log out of your Linux system from within a script. Here's how to do it.