Retired Techie
Getting older, not necessarily wiser!
Getting older, not necessarily wiser!
In this post we will examine a few more commands, and there uses. Noting to complex at this point, as we are still learning to crawl. Specifically we will be looking at man (manual pages), whoami, and pwd (print working directory). Additionally we will take a look at where the command binaries (files) reside on your drive. This means we will touch, just a tinny bit, on the Linux File Structure. (more…)
In this post we will be covering the various parts of, as well as creating, a simple shell script to do some fairly basic stuff. I will be explaining how I go about scripting. Just remember, that’s not the end all. Everyone will develop their own way of doing things that works for them. (more…)
The printf command is a small program that creates formatted output. It is available in several programing languages, as well as several different command shells. In this post I will focus on using printf in the Bourne-again Shell (bash) used in many Linux distributions. (more…)