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 ...

While Linux systems install with thousands of commands, bash also supplies a large number of “built-ins”—commands that are not sitting in the file system as separate files, but are part of bash itself ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. It’s pretty easy to run a batch file on Windows. Just create a file, change the extension to ...

I have a bash script that needs to be able to mount/umount and write to a DVD burner. It all works when it is run as root, but even if I chmod u+s it and leave it owned as root, my other user cannot ...

Ensure only a single instance of your script is running using pgrep, lsof, or flock to prevent concurrency issues. Easily implement checks to self-terminate a script if other running instances are ...