Network World

Using bash options to change the behavior of scripts

Here are some of the more popular bash options to control how scripts work on Linux and how to list the available options, including seeing which ones are turned on. Bash provides a large number of ...
Network World

Using the script command on Linux to record command line activity

The script command not only makes a record of what commands you run but also allows you to save the output generated so that you can examine it later or easily turn your command sequences into scripts ...
Ars Technica

mount: only root can use "--options" option even though script is u+s

cat /usr/bin/mount_music.sh #!/bin/bash mount -t cifs -o ro,username=utwig,password=sekrit,vers=3\.0 //10.13.37.137/music /mnt/music ls /usr/bin/mount_music.sh -l ...
Linux Journal

Bash Redirections Using Exec

If you've used the command line much at all you know about I/O redirection for redirecting input to and/or output from a program. What you don't see all that often or that you may not be familiar with ...