Check if a file is really a file, whether a string contains anything, and whether you can run a program with these vital patterns.
A file of executable commands for Unix and Linux. Created in a text editor, when the file is run, each command is executed until the end of the file is reached. After the shell script is written, it ...
Oh happy day! I got an e-mail from a reader with a shell script question that didn't appear to be homework from a programming class or anything to do with hacking passwords. The reader wrote: I am ...
It is no secret that we often use and abuse bash to write things that ought to be in a different language. But bash does have its attractions. In the modern world, it is practically everywhere. It can ...
I would like to make a shell script that su to root (prompting me for password), changes directory into my Neverwinter Nights directory and then executes ...