If a script that you use asks you to identify a directory that you want to back up in the form of a compressed tar file, it might look like this: #!/bin/bash echo -n "Directory> " read dir tar ...

On some Linux systems (like Fedora), the script command also makes it possible to separate input from output in your session recording using the -I (or –log-in) and -O (or –log-out) options.

Bash scripting is every Linux administrator's Swiss Army knife. Learn how using a for-loop in conjunction with Bash scripts can produce powerful results.

Before learning to think in sed, awk, and grep, I generally accomplished the same tasks by hand-editing large volumes of command output in a text editor, then writing simple shell or perl scripts ...

Ways of Creating a Simple Shell Script in Linux. Creating a simple shell script in Linux is very easy. You can do that using multiple text editors. This tutorial will show how to create a shell script ...

Init scripts differ greatly from OS to OS, even from distribution to distribution in the case of Linux, but they are all rooted in sh, and they all use core CLI tools like sed, awk, and grep.

When last I discussed shell scripts, I was presenting a shell script that offered an alternative to the -C context flag in GNU grep.Although most modern Linux systems have the more capable grep ...