An operating system may be programmed to carry out specific tasks using shell scripting, which is a text file containing a series of instructions. These commands from the shell script are interpreted, ...

This is a full beginner's course on shell scripting that will take you from the very basics to writing simple scripts and connecting them in Unix-based systems.

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 ...

This Wiley Publishing tome is big (more than 650 pages), useful and very complete. Be warned, however, that its scope is limited to system administration. The purpose of the book is to solve “real ...

This workshop provides a concise introduction to scripting and task automation in the Unix bash shell. The workshop participants will be exposed to many examples and hands-on activities that can be ...

If you've been keeping track of my column, you'll know that we're building a Blackjack game as a shell script. Why? Because most shell scripts are far too boring to study without nodding off, so ...

Shell scripting is one of those skills that are absolutely invaluable on especially UNIX and BSD-based systems like the BSDs, the two zillion Linux distributions as well as MacOS. Yet not every shell ...