In this post, we look at scripting basics—at how to get started if you have never built a script before. Identifying the shell Unix and Linux systems today have a number of shells that you can use.

Hi<BR><BR>I have the following simple shell script that is doing some weird behavior. The line that echoes out the fileToLoad and the first paramter appears as it should in a file called OraLoad ...

No. But it will catch things that you might not find for quite some time after deploying a shell script. If you don’t think you can do a lot in a bash script, think again.

Here at work we use an old SCO UNIX system for some of the day to day operations. To make my role as desktop support a little faster I was hoping to write a script that would kill all of the TTYs ...