I use simple bash scripts to automate the boring stuff in Linux. Here's what they are and how they work.

Bash scripting is often seen as a convenient tool for automating repetitive tasks, managing simple file operations, or orchestrating basic system utilities. But beneath its surface lies a trove of ...

It works a little too well to mess around.

An automated script is a code snippet that executes repetitive or complex tasks, such as provisioning infrastructure, managing security vulnerabilities, setting up data pipelines and testing software, ...

FFmpeg was designed as a cross-platform solution for video and audio recording, conversion, and streaming. Its About page describes the command-line tool as “the leading multimedia framework, able to ...

I will be the first to admit it. This is almost not — at least not specifically — a Linux article. The subject? An automation tool for Chrome or Firefox. But before you hit the back button, hear me ...

Bash (Bourne Again Shell) is the free and enhanced version of the Bourne shell distributed with Linux and GNU operating systems (OSes). Bash is similar to the original but has added features, such as ...

It is easy to dismiss bash — the typical Linux shell program — as just a command prompt that allows scripting. Bash, however, is a full-blown programming language. I wouldn’t presume to tell you that ...