This reminds me that shell scripting is my absolute weakest area when it comes to linux. I know I need to learn how to script much better to become effective at managing my linux box and performing ...

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Shell scripting can be tricky because there's bash and then there's sh and then again there's ksh. Lots of people think they are writing sh scripts and even put #/bin/sh on the tops of their files, ...

Shell scripting is one of those skills that are absolutely invaluable on especially UNIX and BSD-based systems like the BSDs, the two zillion Linux distributions as well as MacOS. Yet not every shell ...