Tutorials: Shell scripting

Posts about scripting in the Bourne or Bash shell. For advanced users of Unixes such as Linux as well as the Cygwin and MinGW environments on Windows.

Shell scripting tutorials – best references

Posted on January 28, 2011 by andy

Shell scripting is a powerful way of automating tasks. In these tutorials I refer to shell scripting to mean using the Bourne Shell (sh) or Bourne-Again Shell (bash) in a Unix (e.g. Linux) environment. However, I also use these scripts … Continue reading →

Shell scripting tutorials – prefix commands

Posted on January 29, 2011 by andy

Prefix commands are a seriously useful concept in shell scripting. These are commands that you put before another command to modify its behaviour. The Bourne shell (sh) and Bash shells (bash) have several prefix commands built in, which I’ll cover … Continue reading →

Shell scripting tutorials – more prefix commands

Posted on March 9, 2011 by andy

The previous article on shell scripting of prefix commands introduced the subject, introduced some pre-defined prefix commands and then showed how to write a basic prefix command using the sleep-before command as an example. This article continues in the same … Continue reading →