Image: dennizn/Adobe Stock. Linux is the most flexible operating system on the market; there’s very little you cannot do with this platform. One only needs to look at shell scripting to realize ...

In this how-to we shall take our first steps into creating Bash scripts with three example projects. The first is the ...

It is easy to dismiss bash — the typical Linux shell program — as just a command prompt that allows scripting. Bash, however, is a full-blown programming language. I wouldn’t pres… ...

-n : do not append a newline -e : enable interpretation of backslash escapes \r : carriage return (go back to the beginning of the line without printing a newline) For the sake of understanding, we ...

The script uses “for I” as in a lowercase L (not to be confused with i or I), meaning to cat the servers text file and return one-by-one each host name to use to conduct the commands following ...

Shell scripts are not compiled — at least, not typically — so the shell only reads what it needs to do the work. That means if your script is careful to exit, you can add as much “garbage ...

The Linux script command has been around for ages and provides a simple but useful service. It lets you record command line activity – both input and output. This can be very helpful in ...

alias ls='ls -F' You can nest aliases. Aliases are disabled for noninteractive shells (that is, shell scripts). Use the unalias builtin to remove an alias. When you give an alias builtin command ...