If you're not yet comfortable with writing scripts on Unix and Linux systems, this post might get you off to a healthy start.

Windows users are spoiled. Linux users can create and run shell scripts too, with a little more effort. Run shell scripts in Linux If you want to create a script and run it in Ubuntu, a few extra ...

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