The Linux script command has been around for ages and provides a simple but useful service. It lets you record command line activity – both input and output. This can be very helpful in ...

If a script doesn’t have execute permission, it can still be run by “sourcing” it. This means using a command like that shown below to read and execute the file contents line by line ...

At the first available line, type "@reboot xxxx", where "xxxx" is the command you wish to run. Save the file and exit. Put a script containing the command in your /etc directory. Create a script ...

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 we could run it as so ...