This sample Bash script installs SQL Server 2017 on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) v12 SP2 without interactive input. It provides examples of installing the database engine, the SQL Server ...

Introduction Bash scripting is a powerful tool for automating tasks on Linux and Unix-like systems. While it's well-known for managing file and process operations, arithmetic operations, such as ...

#! /bin/bash # This is the testing script! echo “Welcome to the Linux family.” The above example illustrates the usage of the “#” symbol in adding comments in a shell script. Using Shell Variables ...

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 pres… ...

Unlike shell scripts on Unix systems, batch files are run by typing their names without their extensions. So to run a batch file named mapdrive.bat, you would type only “mapdrive”.

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 ...