If you're not yet comfortable with writing scripts on Unix and Linux systems, this post might get you off to a healthy start. Creating a script on a Unix or Linux system can be dead easy or ...

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 ...

In this project, I explored the power of shell scripting with a focus on mastering control flow constructs. It covered key elements such as conditional statements and loops, showing how they can be ...

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 ...

When last I discussed shell scripts, I was presenting a shell script that offered an alternative to the -C context flag in GNU grep. Although most modern Linux systems have the more capable grep ...

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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 ...

Running script/linux closes the terminal without giving the user a chance to find out if the script has run successfully. As the first step of building Zed on Linux, you are supposed to run the script ...