Passing arguments, writing a help menu, and debugging can be burdensome. However, the getopts command, Heredoc, and the "set ...

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 ...

Once a script is prepared and tested, you can get a significant task completed simply by typing the script's name followed by any required arguments. Developing scripts to handle your more complicated ...

If you use ALSA for sound on your system the functions contained in the script presented here can be used to get and set the volume on your system. You might use this if you had a monitoring script ...

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One of the delights in Bash, zsh, or whichever shell tickles your fancy in your OSS distribution of choice, is the ease of which you can use scripts. These can be shell scripts, or use the Perl, ...

I have a list of mp3 files that I'd like to organize consistent with a playlist (a text file listing the tracks in a specific order). I'm familiar with the power of bash scripts to do simple tasks ...

We have the script below mounting samba storage on startup for a few servers here, on one specific server it has twice instead trashed the whole share. I'm not great at bash scripting but as far as I ...

shellcheck removes some of the friction. The tool scans scripts and highlights errors, unsafe patterns, and syntax quirks. It ...