Shell scripting is a lot more powerful than many people realize. With the right commands, shell scripting can automate many tasks and even make life easier for the user.

Real-World Automation with Shell Scripts. System Monitoring and Maintenance - Scripts can automate system updates, monitor disk usage, and manage system services. Automated Backups and Batch ...

But shell scripts are so 1980’s — if you are into some kind of retro-computing, have at it. My advice is to invest your precious brain cells elsewhere. Use ruby or python for real work and do ...

If you type (or copy and paste) the script examples into the Windows PowerShell ISE starting on line 1, then your line numbers will correspond with the line numbers in the descriptions.

In a real scenario, this could be anything like downloading files, creating backup, validating user input, etc. Also, to give an example we are assuming only four steps in our script below which is ...