Bash scripting is every Linux administrator’s Swiss Army knife. Learn how using a for-loop in conjunction with Bash scripts can produce powerful results. Bash scripting remains a staple of my ...

I've got a script that runs a program in a loop. The program writes a file, and the script extracts a value out of that file. If the value doesn't meet the criteria, the loop continues. One thing that ...

#!/bin/bash until [ "$*" = "" ] do file_name="$1" out_name=$(basename "$1" '.avi').mp4 HandBrakeCLI -v -i "$1" -o "${out_name}" --preset="Universal" shift done I'm ...

While Linux systems install with thousands of commands, bash also supplies a large number of “built-ins”—commands that are not sitting in the file system as separate files, but are part of bash itself ...