You can use shell scripts to automate common tasks or perform any other operation that you could normally run from the command line. Every shell script starts out with the hashbang, or #!.

The script command not only makes a record of what commands you run but also allows you to save the output generated so that you can examine it later or easily turn your command sequences into ...

If you administer multiple Linux servers, Jack Wallen has an easy script you can use to run commands on all of those servers at once.

The reason for this is that the Run prompt works more similarly to the old-school Windows Command Prompt than to PowerShell. To show you what I mean, I created a very simple PowerShell script at C ...

Using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), you can launch Linux applications directly in a Windows 10 command prompt or PowerShell prompt.

Exiting a script and logging out are very different, but sometimes you may need to log out of your Linux system from within a script. Here's how to do it.

We show you how to create and run PowerShell script file in Windows. You can create it using virtually any text editor or the ISE console.

Having the ability to Google from the command line can be an efficient way to look up something on Linux. Jack Wallen shows you how with the help of Googler.