Readers learn more than they could imagine about traps, typeset, getopts and other techniques for managing command-line arguments. System monitoring receives the most coverage: several chapters ...

Shell scripting is a lot more powerful than many people realize. With the right commands, shell scripting can automate many tasks and even ... Let's say you wrote a Bash script on an Ubuntu system.

Basic ways you can use shell scripts to monitor password strength and secret accounts. The internet ain't what it used to be back in the old days. I remember being online back when it was known as ...