Bash scripting is every Linux administrator’s Swiss Army knife. Learn how using a for-loop in conjunction with Bash scripts can produce powerful results. Bash scripting remains a staple of my ...

In our first tutorial on command line wizardry, we covered simple redirection and the basics of sed, awk, and grep. Today, we’re going to introduce the concepts of simple variable substitution and ...

I've got a script that runs a program in a loop. The program writes a file, and the script extracts a value out of that file. If the value doesn't meet the criteria, the loop continues. One thing that ...

Many bash scripts use arguments to control the commands that they will run and the information that will be provided to the people running them. This post examines a number of ways that you can verify ...

Before delving into advanced techniques, you should familiarize yourself with the command line or Terminal, Linux's powerful tool. Here, you can perform tasks by typing a sequence of commands. While ...