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

I wasn't a developer when I first started using Linux many moons ago. I dabbled in Python and wrote plenty of Bash scripts, ...

Here are some steps you can take to ensure that your bash scripts work as intended and are easy to update.

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 ...

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 debugg… ...

If you save the script as sound.sh and run it directly passing the name of a sound file it will play the file at the current volume, then it raises the volume and plays it again, and finally it ...

It's a bash script for installing a customized Arch Linux system that automates the entire process after you've edited the configuration file with your preferences.

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 ...

Yes, now with Bash Shell in Windows 11 and Windows 10, you can now create and run Bash shell scripts and incorporate Bash commands into a Windows batch file or PowerShell script.