Passing arguments, writing a help menu, and debugging can be burdensome. However, the getopts command, Heredoc, and the "set -x" option are common solutions that not everybody knows about. Let's ...

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 ...

Do you want to create a Shell script in your Linux system? This guide will take you through how to create a shell script using multiple text editors, how to add comments, and how to use Shell ...

Here are steps you can take to ensure that your bash scripts work as intended and are easy to update. Committing routine and even rarely required tasks to scripts is almost always a big win because ...

If you are a traditional programmer, using bash for scripting may seem limiting sometimes, but for certain tasks, bash can be very productive. It turns out, some of the limits of bash are really ...

We often write quick bash scripts and judging by the comments, half of us use bash or a similar shell to pop out quick, useful scripts, and half of us think that’s an abomination, and you should only ...

After the beginners guide, the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide is a good read however be warned that some information and examples found there, such as the first couple in the /dev section, might be OS ...

At times, we need to write shell scripts that are interactive and user executing them need to monitor the progress. For such requirements, we can implement a simple progress bar that gives an idea ...

*** Not sure if this should be here or Linux forum ***<BR><BR>Hey,<BR><BR>I have a situation where I need to automate a soap call that is done using a java class. I have one script that sets all of ...