A Few More Shell Basics

In our last lesson here, I scratched the surface of the basics needed to start scripting in BASH. Today, we’ll learn a few more things. Here are some fundamentals that we need to cover real quick. It’s nothing too complicated. chmod – You’ve seen this command in action before, I’m sure. It’s important when it [...]

Some BASH Basics

Before we get ahead of ourselves, it would probably be a good idea to go over some BASH basics. Let’s start at the beginning, OK? The Bourne Shell was born at AT&T’s Bell Laboratories a while back. It was birthed by Steve Bourne, hence the name. The Bourne Again Shell (bash) is a direct descendent [...]