Here are some basic skills to get started with bash, one of the best shells for preparing and using scripts on Linux. Scripting in Linux–putting commands into a file so you can run them as a group—is ...

If you're working with a large amount of data in your Bash scripts, arrays will make your life a lot easier. Some people get ...

Once a script is prepared and tested, you can get a significant task completed simply by typing the script's name followed by any required arguments. Developing scripts to handle your more complicated ...

Although bash scripts are regularly maligned, they do have a certain simplicity and ease of creation that makes them hard to resist. But sometimes you really need to do some heavy lifting in another ...

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 debugged systems ...

BASH is a Unix shell and command language which can run Shell Script files. You do not need to install Ubuntu or any other Linux Distros unless your scripts need the ...

I follow several Web comics. I used to open my Web browser and check out each comic's Web site. That method was fine when I read only a few Web comics, but it became a pain to stay current when I ...

I'd like to write a shell script that will take a file containing a list of ip addresses and remove all the duplicates.<BR><BR>So how do I:<BR>1. Read one line at a time<BR>2. Use sed or similar tool ...

So, once again acknowledging my lack of scripting talent. I've got bits and pieces of this worked out, but missing some of the glue to tie it all together. Basically what I'm working on is a script ...