Creating a simple shell script in Linux is very easy. You can do that using multiple ... just follow the steps given below. Step 1: Create a text file having a “.sh” extension. Then type a simple ...

It isn’t an uncommon scenario. The obvious answer is to create an archive — a zip or tar file, maybe — and include a shell script that you have to tell the user to run after unpacking.

In this post I'll show you how to create a self extracting bash script to automate the installation of files on your system. This script requires coreutils (for cat, tail), awk, gzip, tar and bash.