Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. If you want to create a script and run it in Ubuntu, a few extra steps are involved. First, ...

The eval command allows you to run the contents of variables as commands and can be very useful, especially in scripts. There are probably a lot of Linux users who have never encountered the eval ...

Some of the most versatile commands you can run on the Linux command line are those that enable you to pass the output of one command to another by using something called a “pipe”. You can also set up ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. When you run your own executable command or shell script on Linux, you must prepend ./ to the ...

Jack Wallen shows how you can create a Linux shell script that requires a password without having to save a password within the script. Image: dennizn/Adobe Stock ...