We often write quick bash scripts and judging by the comments, half of us use bash or a similar shell to pop out quick, useful scripts, and half of us think that’s an abomination, and you should only ...

Linux offers a couple of easy ways to record commands you type so that you can review or rerun them. Recording the commands that you run on the Linux command line can be useful for two important ...

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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 verify ...

Few aspects of Unix system administration are more intimate than the relationship between the admin and their chosen shell. After all, the shell is the most fundamental interface to the system, the ...

FFmpeg was designed as a cross-platform solution for video and audio recording, conversion, and streaming. Its About page describes the command-line tool as “the leading multimedia framework, able to ...

Build a bash script that controls what, where, and when backups run. Schedule the executable backup.sh with cron and review logs and destination after runs. Test the script, use absolute paths to ...

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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 ...