If you're not yet comfortable with writing scripts on Unix and Linux systems, this post might get you off to a healthy start.

Bash scripting commands are as varied as the command set that Unix's terminal has. Bash commands can also use parameters, expanding their usability and making them a powerful way of controlling Linux.

Simply put, a Shell Script is a program that is run by a UNIX/Linux shell. It is a file that contains a series of commands which are executed sequentially as if they were entered on the command line ...

Everything needed to use the same script with Linux and all varieties of UNIX is present: Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX have one subsection each. The first chapter is a quick tutorial of shell ...

The steps described above are manifest in the following six commands: $ mkdir scripts $ cd scripts $ touch script.sh $ echo 'echo hello-world' >> script.sh $ chmod -R 777 . $ ./script.sh hello-world ...

I've tried Google, I've tried the search, and I can't find anything good on shell scripting in Windows NT/2000/XP. (Plenty on WSH scripting, but that's not what I want.)I'm trying to set up a ...

The awk command is incredibly useful, and you will be surprised at just how powerful and transformative it will make your scripts. Here's how to get started using it.

Bash has quietly made scripting on Unix systems a lot easier with its own regular expressions. If you're still leaning on grep and sed commands to get your scripts to do what you need from them ...