It isn’t an uncommon scenario. The obvious answer is to create an archive — a zip or tar file, maybe — and include a shell script that you have to tell the user to run after unpacking.

Okie dokey. I spent about 3 days recently writing a script which kills orphaned FTP processes using Perl. Here were my requirements. - Must kill orphaned FTP processes - Must use the company's ...

It is easy to dismiss bash — the typical Linux shell program — as just a command prompt that allows scripting. Bash, however, is a full-blown programming language. I wouldn’t pres… ...

Each Linux command returns an exit code, with 0 indicating success and non-zero values indicating failure. You can use the $? variable to access the exit code and control program flow in scripts.

Used that to make the scripts for the manually installed versions of Open SSH & Apache on my RH boxes, from 7.1 to 9.<BR>Scroll down the page to the "Init Script" bit.

David Howells put in quite a bit of work on a script, ./scripts/syscall-manage.pl, to simplify the entire process of changing the system call tables. With this script, it was a simple matter to add, ...

When last I discussed shell scripts, I was presenting a shell script that offered an alternative to the -C context flag in GNU grep. Although most modern Linux systems have the more capable grep ...