Best Practices in Shell Scripting Writing Maintainable Code - Write clear, well-commented scripts. Use descriptive variable names and adhere to a consistent coding style. Security Considerations - Be ...

However, we often don’t write programs or shell scripts to take advantage of this. However, there’s no reason for this, as you’ll see. Bash Support ...

If you often find yourself writing scripts from scratch when you know you wrote something similar not all that long ago, maybe it’s time to make your scripts a bit more reusable. The usefulness ...

We've spent the last three columns talking about the basic nuts and bolts of shell script programming, so I think it's time to start digging into a real shell script, and build something interesting ...

I've been hacking around with some Linux shell scripts for a project that are derived from existing, known good scripts. I'm using Ubuntu on WSL. The original scripts are nested, and a common ...

Jack Wallen shows how you can create a Linux shell script that requires a password without having to save a password within the script.