In this article, we will see bash commands or script that can be used to emulate watch utility functionality in Linux/Unix based systems. It is not very uncommon that you don't have watch utility available in your Linux/Unix based systems. While in some of the Linux/Unix distributions it will be available by default but there ... Read more

In this article, we will see how to decide the usage of for and while loop in Shell scripting. It was not very long ago when I started working on some shell scripts to automate some of my manual tasks where I had to regularly use for and while loop to run through series of ... Read more

In this article, we will see how to solve "syntax error: unexpected end of File" in Linux Shell Scripting. Last night when I was working on a simple shell script to calculate sum of two numbers, I noticed an error while running the script which was totally unexpected. Then I realized although the error is ... Read more

In this article, we will see how to solve "xx: command not found" error in Linux Shell Scripting. This is a very common error that most of the beginners face during shell scripting or if someone switched to shell scripting after working with object oriented programming languages like Java, C++, C# etc. It is so ... Read more

In this article, we will see how to declare a variable read only in Linux Bash Shell scripting. Like in many other programming and scripting languages there might be a situation in Linux bash shell scripting as well where you need to declare a variable as read only so that value assigned to it cannot ... Read more

In this article, I will take you through 7 Important Bash shell scripts that every Linux Administrators Should Know About. In a typical scenario, every Linux administrator runs certain set of repetitive commands as part of their day to day task. Sometimes running command manually can be boring and frustrating so to deal with this ... Read more

In this article, I will go through different methods using which you can set/assign output of a Linux Command to a variable. If you are frequently using Bash Scripting then you might know or aware of the methods used to set/assign output of a Linux command to a variable but in case you are not ... Read more

Do you want to suppress or hide all the output of a Linux Bash Shell Script ? Do you want to redirect all the output to /dev/null ? Are you looking to silence all the output of a Linux Bash Shell Script ? Are you looking to redirect all the error to output ? Do ... Read more

In this article, I will take you through 15 Practical Bash for loop Examples in Linux/Unix for Beginners. If you are using Bash Scripting in Linux from long time then you might be aware of bash for loop and its usages. So in this article I thought to explain some real world examples which will ... Read more