Everything needed to use the same script with Linux and all varieties of UNIX is present: Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX have one subsection each. The first chapter is a quick tutorial of shell ...

Dive into the world of Linux shell scripting with this hands-on guide. If you’re comfortable using the command line on Unix or Linux but haven’t fully explored Bash, this book is for you.

Shell scripting is one of those skills that are absolutely invaluable on especially UNIX and BSD-based systems like the BSDs, the two zillion Linux distributions as well as MacOS. Yet not every ...

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”.

Shell scripts are the Unix/Linux counterpart to Windows/DOS batch files and Windows scripts. Because macOS is Unix based, Macs also execute shell scripts.

To see how associative arrays work, we’re going to look at both the Korn shell and Perl, though only the newest version of the Korn shell (referred to as “korn93”) supports associative arrays.

A shell script is a list of commands that are read by the shell and executed in order. Shell scripts also support some programming language fundamentals, such as variables, flow control and data ...

UNIX administrators, for instance, have been using shell scripting and its powerful capabilities for decades. Scripting can significantly ease the burden of network administration.