Shell Script

The while loop in shell script is the workhorse you reach for when you do not know how many iterations you need, so you must decide when to stop instead of how many times to run. I kept treating while test as boolean logic borrowed from Python, then hit silent failures around quoting, pipes, and

My first bash if else always took the wrong branch, the test looked right and still did the opposite. I ran the broken string test on bash 5.2.21 (Ubuntu 24.04) and watched an unquoted variable flip the result, then fixed it with quoting and [[ ]]. If else in shell script is how you branch

Long if-elif-else chains get hard to read once a script needs more than two or three outcomes. The bash case statement handles that job with one value, a list of globs, and the first matching block runs. I rebuilt the examples on Ubuntu 24.04 with Bash 5.2 and ran each one to confirm the match,

If you want to make your next Linux interview easier, look no further. Here are some of the top 50 shell script questions that you will most likely be asked in your Linux interviews. The questions are categorized for better skimmability. Basic Questions Asked in Shell Script Interviews 1. What is a shell? A shell

Whenever you enter your password in the Terminal whether to install a software or to access a remote server via SSH, you have to type your password. Now, the problem is, that sometimes while typing the password you forget how many characters you’ve entered, and you may have to write the password all over again

When you first open the terminal application, you are greeted with a prompt that tells you about your username, the name of the machine, and probably other information such as the current directory in plain white text. In Manjaro Linux, however, the prompt is modified to look more pleasant by the Manjaro Development team. However,

Terminal in Linux is a powerful tool. You can do anything in it, and when I say anything, I mean ANYTHING. One such cool thing you can do is get a news feed in the terminal. And it is extremely lightweight, considering we are only modifying our bashrc file to achieve this. Great, let’s get

Bash allows you to create terminal aliases to speed up your workflows, reduce the amount of typing required, and make your routine tasks more efficient. The terminal is the key to everything in Linux, and we all must have used it sometime in our journey, either to troubleshoot or just to take a look at

In this article, we’ll learn how you can run a MySQL query in Python. Many Web Apps are developed using Flask Or Django Frameworks, and these apps can consist of various databases depending upon the use case of the Client. What’s special about Python is that it can easily integrate some basic databases like SQLite