Do you want to create a Shell script in your Linux system? This guide will take you through how to create a shell script using multiple text editors, how to add comments, and how to use Shell ...

This chapter excerpt on Linux Administration (download PDF) is taken from the book The Accidental Administrator: Linux Server Step-by-Step Configuration Guide. Among the topics covered in this book ...

If you use Linux, chances are you're familiar with the command line. The shell is a powerful command-line interface, but you can think of running commands as a kind of programming. Here's why. The ...

In this newly revised fifth edition, Richard Blum delivers an up-to-date and authoritative discussion of the fundamentals of shell scripting in Linux, as well as the advanced topics, working examples, ...

Basic ways you can use shell scripts to monitor password strength and secret accounts. The internet ain't what it used to be back in the old days. I remember being online back when it was known as ...

With even Windows offering a Linux shell, this is a good time to learn this language. Unfortunately the Linux shell is very idosyncratic, and hence a difficult language to master. There are few ...

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 ...

It is easy to dismiss bash — the typical Linux shell program — as just a command prompt that allows scripting. Bash, however, is a full-blown programming language. I wouldn’t presume to tell you that ...

If you’re comfortable using the command line on Unix or Linux but haven’t fully explored Bash, this book is for you. It’s designed for programmers familiar with languages like Python, JavaScript, or ...

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Files, permissions, processes, networking, packages and disks: the Linux commands you actually use, with syntax and examples, and the ip and ss tools that replaced ifconfig and netstat.