If you're not yet comfortable with writing scripts on Unix and Linux systems, this post might get you off to a healthy start. Creating a script on a Unix or Linux system can be dead easy or ...

Have you been thinking about biting the bullet and learning Bash scripting? Or perhaps you're like me, and you're always looking for ways to improve. I have three tips that will improve every Bash ...

Bash scripts are powerful, but with power comes great responsibility. It’s very easy for sloppy or poorly-planned code to do real damage, so it’s a good idea to be careful and practice defensive ...

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 and ...

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 division, play a ...

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 ...

In our first tutorial on command line wizardry, we covered simple redirection and the basics of sed, awk, and grep. Today, we’re going to introduce the concepts of simple variable substitution and ...

The Linux terminal isn't nearly as hard as you think. Understanding the fundamentals will help get you started. These concepts apply to all Linux distributions. When many think about Linux, they think ...

In this tutorial, you will learn how to write Bash scripts that run on Ubuntu and encode and package multiple files to HLS/DASH output using open-source tools FFmpeg and Bento4. You’ll learn how to ...