It's not hard to create and run a shell script in Linux distros like Ubuntu, but there are a few non-obvious pitfalls you need to avoid. Here's a quick example of how to execute a script in Linux.

The eval command allows you to run the contents of variables as commands and can be very useful, especially in scripts. There are probably a lot of Linux users who have never encountered the eval ...

If you administer multiple Linux servers, Jack Wallen has an easy script you can use to run commands on all of those servers at once.

If nano is your Linux editor of choice, and you want to make it a bit more flexible, Jack Wallen is ready to help you with the built-in Execute tool.

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. When you run your own executable command or shell script on Linux, you must prepend ./ to the ...