Bash scripting commands are as varied as the command set that Unix's terminal has. Bash commands can also use parameters, expanding their usability and making them a powerful way of controlling Linux.

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Mastering UNIX Shell Scripting by Randy Michael. Reviews. by Marco Fioretti. on November 1, 2004. John Wiley & Sons, 2003. ISBN: 0471218219. ... The most arcane shell commands and options are ...

The last of the basic building blocks of shell scripting are conditional statements, allowing you to decide programmatically whether to execute a block of statements based on a logical test, and flow ...

Unlike shell scripts on Unix systems, batch files are run by typing their names without their extensions. So to run a batch file named mapdrive.bat, you would type only “mapdrive”.

I had a simple shell script that I could call directly from within Vim itself to perform those steps. This same approach is still viable on Mac OS X, but I wanted to explore a more Mac-native ...

Press CTRL+C to stop the running Linux script if it does not terminate gracefully; The steps described above are manifest in the following six commands: $ mkdir scripts $ cd scripts $ touch script.sh ...