It’s pretty easy to run a batch file on Windows. Just create a file, change the extension to .bat, and either call the script in PowerShell or double click to execute it. Windows users are spoiled.

In this post I'll show you how to create a self extracting bash script to automate the installation of files on your system. This script requires coreutils (for cat, tail), awk, gzip, tar and bash.

But before heading over to creating a shell script, let’s understand what Shell scripting in Linux is. What is Shell Scripting in Linux? So, what’s Shell scripting? Shell Scripting is defined as an ...