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

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, with total size of the directory contents ...

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Simply put, a Shell Script is a program that is run by a UNIX/Linux shell. It is a file that contains a series of commands which are executed sequentially as if they were entered on the command line ...

Bash's history feature is a useful tool, if you know how to use it, and how to keep it clean of private data.

When writing scripts, it’s important to know how to test and validate variables.

So, once again acknowledging my lack of scripting talent. I've got bits and pieces of this worked out, but missing some of the glue to tie it all together. Basically what I'm working on is a ...

We often write quick bash scripts and judging by the comments, half of us use bash or a similar shell to pop out quick, useful scripts, and half of us think that’s an abomination, and you should ...