However, you can easily create a shell script that contains a file — even an archive of many files — and then retrieve the file and act on it at run time. This is much simpler from the remote ...

In this how-to, we will create a simple application launcher using a Bash script. Selecting an application will trigger the terminal command and open the application.

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