A program (binary, or executable) is a file on disk somewhere, in a recognized format. Common formats include ELF on Linux, ...

Loops in scripts can be incredibly useful because they allow you to repeat commands as many times as needed or until you kill the script. Here are some simple examples of using the for command.

Most of the time, exiting a script leaves you sitting at the command prompt. If you need to log out of your Linux system from within a script, things get a little complicated.

Writing a proper script requires a specialized tool, and specialized tools are expensive. In recent years, a number of commercial tools have grown up to address this need. However, the resulting ...

More than just writing help scripts, here documents are useful any time that you want to enter multiple lines and have them piped to a command. We use them most often from the shell directly.

Update your Fedora 29 system, add two important repositories, and install a ridiculous amount of useful software and audio / video codecs. With a single, easy-to-use script.

To change a password in Linux through a Bash script, he two scripts that are most important are 'Create Users' and 'Change Passwords Shell' scripts, for the system admin which regularly uses the mail ...