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 Linux script command has been around for ages and provides a simple but useful service. It lets you record command line activity – both input and output.

Instead, it would first find the script named javadoc.sh which is part of every JDK \bin directory. My script would never run. That’s why we always use ./ to run our scripts in Unix and Linux ...

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.