How to Run a Command on Startup in Linux. One of Linux's strengths as an operating system is its ability to be configured and tweaked to suit your tastes. Using the command line allows you to ...

The eval command allows you to run the contents of variables as commands and can be very useful -- especially in scripts.

It's not hard to create and run a shell script in Linux distros like Ubuntu, but there are a few non-obvious pitfalls you need to avoid. Here's a quick example of how to execute a script in Linux.

When you run commands on Linux, be they one at a time at the prompt or from a bash script, those commands run in sequence. The first command runs, followed by the second, followed by the third.

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.