what can you do? SEE: 40+ open source and Linux terms you need to know (TechRepublic Premium) One solution is to turn to sshpass, which makes it possible to use a password in a shell script ...

It is easy to dismiss bash — the typical Linux shell program — as just a command prompt that allows scripting ... times bash can do things better or neater, but we still use the older ways.

At times, we need to write shell scripts ... need to use the “echo” command with the following options and a backslash-escaped character. -n : do not append a newline -e : enable interpretation of ...

You need to package up a bunch of files, send them somewhere, and do something ... to run your magic script of commands after the unpack. However, you can easily create a shell script that ...

Have you ever used Secure Shell to access a remote machine, only to find yourself needing to download a file from a remote location? What do you do? Since you only have terminal window access to ...

How to use a Bash script for-loop for system administration in Linux Your email has been sent Bash scripting remains a staple of my endeavors in Linux as a system administrator, and I use it every ...

This article is reprinted from the book A Practical Guide to Linux ... (that is, shell scripts). Use the unalias builtin to remove an alias. When you give an alias builtin command without any ...