Linux Bash shell is the most popular shell. /bin/bash is the path and executable of the Bash shell. /bin/bash is a binary which is used in different ways to run and execute commands and scripts. Script File Interpreter #!/bin/bash In Linux and opensource world script files are very important. There are different type of scripting language used to write script files. As file extension is just a label for a script...
Linux and Unix ecosystem mainly used command line based. While working with command line and C Shell we generally need some values to use with commands. Shells provide environment variables for this. This environment variables can be managed with setenv command like add, change and remove. Syntax Syntax of setenv command is very simple we just need to provide the variable name and data
1 | setenv VARIABLENAME DATA |
List All Environment Variables We can use...
A scripting language is a programming language supports writing simply to medium level applications in operating systems like Linux, Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Windows, MacOS, BSD, Unix. Scripting languages can be used to run complex tasks automatically or manually with very little effort. We can describe actions in a scripting language and run them easily. In this tutorial, we will look at popular scripting languages used by different operating systems and...
Bash is very popular Linux and Unix shell used system administrators. Even most of the users do not know that they are using bash shell because of it is provided by default in the operating system. There are different shell types supported by Linux, Unix and BSD. Korn shell is another but less popular shell. In this post we will compare bashand kshand try to show differences and similarities between...
Linux and Unix provides different flavors of command line interface. bashis the most popular and use one. But we have alternatives too. kshor Korn Shell is one of them. Kornshell is mainly developed for shell based application development. ksh provides better performance for shell script. Install Kornshell We can install Kornshell for most of the Linux, Unix and BSD operating systems. Here are some of them. Fedora, CentOS, RedHat
1 | $ yum install ksh |
Ubuntu,...
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[rps-include post=6835] One of the most strong side of the Unix and Linux operating system is their scripting ability and features. Unix and Linux systems generally uses bash as default shell and scripting facility. In this tutorial we will look how to create script and run scripts in bash shell. Creating A Script File Writing scripts that will run periodically needs to save script into a file. Script file contains same...
[rps-include post=6835] Bash history goes to the early 1970’s when first bash version is released with mainstream Unix operating system. Bash is then ported into a lot of different platforms like Ultrix, AIX, SunOS, Linux. Bash is the shell and command interpreter for Linux,Unix,BSD etc. operating systems. Bash is the acronym of Bourne-Again Shell . Bash adds a lot of feature to the standard sh . Alternative to bash is...
Linux provides a lot of different type of shells. There are shells like bash, ksh, csh. But what non of them exist in a Linux or Unix system. The default shell for Linux and Unix systems is sh . This shell is called also dash because of its maintainers those works for Debian. We will call this as sh from now. Sh is by default installed and exist most of the Linux...
Linux provides usermod command by default for the most of the distributions. This command is used to user modification. After user creation the user related information, values and policies can be changed with usermod command. In this tutorial we will look various features of usermod command with examples. Syntax Syntax of the usermod command is like below.
1 | usermod [options] LOGIN |
Help
1 | $ usermod -h |
Add Comment or Information User information is stored in a file...
