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 ...

Try this snippet to see what I'm talking about: echo "arg1 = $1" ; shift ; echo "now arg1 = $1" The variable $0 is a special one in this sequence. It's the name of the script or program invoked. This ...

You can refer to variables as $1, $2 and so on within a bash script. Assigning their values to named variables, on the other hand, generally makes scripts more readable.

Shell Scripting A Simple Shell Script #!/bin/bash clear echo "Hello world!" The first line tells the operating system what shell to use to interpret the script and the location of the shell. We need ...