It is easy to dismiss bash — the typical Linux shell program — as just a command prompt that allows scripting. Bash, however, is a full-blown programming language. I wouldn’t pres… ...

Learn how to use the timeout command in Bash scripts to prevent infinite loops when waiting for a service to come online.

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 ...

Basic Nohup Use in Linux At its most basic, nohup can be used with only a single argument, the name of the script / command that we want to run. For example if we had a Bash script called test.sh ...

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

Bash scripting is every Linux administrator's Swiss Army knife. Learn how using a for-loop in conjunction with Bash scripts can produce powerful results. Image: jivacore/Shutterstock ...

I'm actually on a Mac, but for some reason I thought Bash script and went right for the Linux forum. I don't think Macs have chkconfig, but I could use launchd, or just add it to cron even.

With these tools, you can build a Bash script to fetch a Web comic from a Web page and save it to view later. The process involves five simple steps: Download the Web comic's Web page and convert ...

Here at work we use an old SCO UNIX system for some of the day to day operations. To make my role as desktop support a little faster I was hoping to write a script that would kill all of the TTYs ...