Developing bash scripts lets you do a lot of work with little or no effort. This bash command cheat sheet will help you get started. Developing scripts in bash (short for Bourne-Again SHell) can be a ...

In this article, I want to cover a more fundamental aspect of shell scripting: working with command arguments. I suspect that most shell scripts go through an evolution with their command flags, ...

If you aren’t a Linux user and you watch someone who knows what they are doing use Bash — the popular command line interpreter — you might get the impression they type much faster than they actually ...

Few aspects of Unix system administration are more intimate than the relationship between the admin and their chosen shell. After all, the shell is the most fundamental interface to the system, the ...

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Using bash aliases in Linux can save time and having to remember complex commands - and it can be fun, too. Want to get work done a little faster, spend less time remembering commands and maybe even ...

I've talked before about how I am a lazy shell script programmer. It might be because I'm simply not a full-time professional software developer, and I don't even administer my own servers anymore—I ...