Shell scripting is the easiest form of programming you can learn/do in Linux. More so, it is a required skill for system administration for automating tasks, developing new simple utilities/tools just to mention but...
ShellCheck is a static analysis tool that shows warnings and suggestions concerning bad code in bash/sh shell scripts. It can be used in several ways: from the web by pasting your shell script in...
Linux is a multi-user, time sharing system, implying that more than one user can log in and use a system. And system administrators have the task of managing various aspects of how different users...
In Linux, shell scripts help us in so many different ways including performing or even automating certain system administration tasks, creating simple command line tools and many more. In this guide, we will show...
Today, Bash is the default shell in most (if not all) modern Linux distributions. However, you may have noticed that the text color in the terminal and the prompt content can be different from...
In this article of the shell script debugging series, we will explain the third shell script debugging mode, that is shell tracing and look at some examples to demonstrate how it works, and how...
We started the shell script debugging series by explaining the different debugging options and how to enable shell script debugging modes. After writing your shell scripts, it is recommended that we practically check the...
A script is simply a list of commands stored in a file. Instead of running a sequence of commands by typing them one by one all the time on the terminal, a system user...
Powerline is a great statusline plugin for Vim editor, which is developed in Python and provides statuslines and prompts for many other applications such as bash, zsh, tmux and many more. Features It is...
The duty of System Administrator is really tough as he/she has to monitor the servers, users, logs, create backup and blah blah blah. For the most repetitive task most of the administrator write a...
