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 variables. But before heading over to creating a shell script, ...

Windows users are spoiled. Linux users can create and run shell scripts too, with a little more effort. Run shell scripts in Linux If you want to create a script and run it in Ubuntu, a few extra ...

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 ...

The grep command is a powerful tool for searching for files or information. Learn some strategies for using it effectively.

A series of commands ranging from simple to fairly complex will help you count lines, words or individual characters on the Linux command line.

As a freelance web dev, most of my time spent on a Linux command line was setting up the servers (so, hopefully-do-once-and-forget-about-it stuff) and then running the most basic of commands.

I love chaining commands as much as anyone, and sed, awk, grep, and perl are some of my best friends. However, remember that, in *nix, each command runs in its own process, the resources required ...