You need to package up a bunch of files, send them somewhere, and do something with them at the destination. It isn’t an uncommon scenario. The obvious answer is to create an archive — a zip or tar ...

I’m going to go ahead and admit it: I really have too many tray icons. You know the ones. They sit on your taskbar, perhaps doing something in the background or, at least, giving you fingertip access ...

You've seen it a million times—the hash-bang (#!) line at the top of a script—whether it be Bash, Python, Perl or some other scripting language. And, I'm sure you know what its purpose is: it ...

Here are some basic skills to get started with bash, one of the best shells for preparing and using scripts on Linux. Scripting in Linux–putting commands into a file so you can run them as a group—is ...

If you're a cybersecurity enthusiast or ethical hacker who wants to learn more about building hacking tools, this book is for ...

Exiting a script and logging out are very different, but sometimes you may need to log out of your Linux system from within a script. Here's how to do it. Most of the time, exiting a script leaves you ...

This should do it. Run it as-is first, then change the print statements to just statements once you're sure it's going to do the right thing for you. So change print ...