but that’s another story entirely). [noperator] recently built a tool which helps users in this predicament understand these shell scripts by expanding them into a more human-intelligible form.

In this how-to we shall take our first steps into creating Bash scripts with three example projects. The first is the ...

One of the delights in Bash, zsh, or whichever shell tickles your fancy in your OSS distribution of choice, is the ease of which you can use scripts. These can be shell scripts, or use the Perl ...

Don't expose your system with sloppy scripts! Although a Linux desktop or server is less susceptible to viruses and malware than a typical Windows device, there isn't a device on the internet that isn ...

The first software that I was actually paid to develop was a 2-page shell script that prompted the user for a dozen or so pieces of information, before launching a set of cooperating processes. Those ...

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

BASH is a Unix shell and command language which can run Shell Script files. You do not need to install Ubuntu or any other Linux Distros unless your scripts need the ...

Jack Wallen shows how you can create a Linux shell script that requires a password without having to save a password within the script. Image: dennizn/Adobe Stock ...

After the shell script is written, it is made usable by changing its file status to "executable" with the change mode command (see chmod). THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...