Many bash scripts use arguments to control the commands that they will run and the information that will be provided to the people running them. This post examines a number of ways that you can ...

If you're not yet comfortable with writing scripts on Unix and Linux systems, this post might get you off to a healthy start.

Thus, you might enter: [myname@lab1 ~]$ myprogram < ./mycommands.txt Many other Bash operators can be used in normal shell sessions or in Bash scripting, but we’ve covered the major ones.

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. Image: jivacore/Shutterstock ...

I'm tweaking this script, and I'm having a lot of trouble testing my changes. It seems like my shell, Bash, is not respecting whitespace. Could someone help ...

A recent post about debugging constructs surprised me. There were quite a few comments about how you didn’t need a debugger, as long as you had printf. For that matter, we’ve all debugg… ...

To change a password in Linux through a Bash script, he two scripts that are most important are 'Create Users' and 'Change Passwords Shell' scripts, for the system admin which regularly uses the mail ...

Update your Fedora 29 system, add two important repositories, and install a ridiculous amount of useful software and audio / video codecs. With a single, easy-to-use script.

Huh? Windows? Um... OK, yes the Scripting Guy Games are for Windows. But what if we did it for Linux. What sort of meaty script challenge could we come up with? Certainly something more challenging ...