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 ...

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One of the delights in Bash, zsh, or whichever shell tickles your fancy in your OSS distribution of choice, is the ease of which you can use scripts. These can be shell scripts, or use the Perl, ...

Once a script is prepared and tested, you can get a significant task completed simply by typing the script's name followed by any required arguments. Developing scripts to handle your more complicated ...

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Jack Wallen shows how you can create a Linux shell script that requires a password without having to save a password within the script. Explore Get the web's best ...

If you're not yet comfortable with writing scripts on Unix and Linux systems, this post might get you off to a healthy start. Creating a script on a Unix or Linux system can be dead easy or ...

On my Mac, I like to run shell scripts to monitor file server disk usage etc and have them always shown on my desktop with GeekTool.<BR><BR>Is there a similar tool for FreeBSD (or Linux?). I'm just ...