Learning to use write basic scripts with a language like Python or Bash can save you a lot of time on everything from organizing your files, editing text documents, and everything in between.

The output is a bash script. Admittedly, sometimes a hard-to-read bash script, but still. If you want to see the source code, it is available on GitHub.

I'm actually on a Mac, but for some reason I thought Bash script and went right for the Linux forum. I don't think Macs have chkconfig, but I could use launchd, or just add it to cron even.

Using RH7.0, I've set up a bash script called 'dlist' which is just an 'ls' with the '-s and -h' switches appended. This gives you your normal ls output ...

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Creating a script on a Unix or Linux system can be dead easy or surprisingly complex; it all depends on how much you’re trying to get the script to do. In this post, we look at scripting basics ...

One of the more complete online resources I found was an appendix to a bash-scripting guide, which started out with the following sentence "Localization is an undocumented Bash feature.". Well, at ...

In order to avoid this common mistake I often have my shell scripts prompt me for a yes or no answer before they proceed. The function described here is for doing that: asking a question and ...