In our Shell scripting 101 today, we’ll learn how to make use of if else in shell script and what different situations require the use of the if and else statement in Linux. A demonstrated use of “if statement” was…
Moving ahead with our tutorials now, let’s introduce the for loop in shell scripts in our today’s topic. We’ve already covered the while loop in our previous tutorial and used the break and continue statements to quit the while loop…
Switch case in shell scripts is an efficient alternative to the if-elif-else statement we learned previously. The concept of the switch case statements is that we provide an expression for different cases (conditions) to the statement that, when fulfilled, will execute specific…
After learning the basics in our previous tutorials about if-else statements, switch-case statements, etc, it’s time to create functions in shell scripts. Functions help us divide scripts into different sections and make the code more portable as well as reusable.…
Continuing our series, in today’s article, we’ll go over the until loop in shell scripts. We’ve already covered for loops and while loops in shell scripts in our previous tutorials. You’ll find a lot of similarities in the while and…
We talked about the while, for, and until loops in shell scripts in the past few tutorials now. Let’s learn the select loop in shell scripts, a very interesting and unique loop in bash. Why is it interesting or unique?…
There are multiple ways of setting hostname in Debian or Linux system. You can temporarily change the hostname, or permanently apply the changes to a system. Let’s go over these methods. Setting hostname temporarily Let’s start with the temporary and…