I want to monitor a continuously updating log file, what command can be used to most efficiently achieve this?
What is the difference between break and continue commands?
write a scwipt that a) takes exactly one argument, a directory name. b) if the number of argument is more or less than one,print a usage message c) if the argument is not adirectory, print another message d) for the given directory, print the five biggest files and the five files that were most recently modified. e) save the output to a file called q2output.
Script S1 (which copies .dat files from one directory1 to another directory2) run continuously. Write Script S2 which kills S1 first, compresses all .dat files in directory1 and directory2 successfully, re-run Script S1 and stops self i.e. S2.
Why is used in shell scripting?
How to sort a result of Ls -l command based on columns. Ex. i want to sort 5th column from output of ls -l command.
What is the difference between running a script as ./scriptname.sh and sh scriptname.sh
What does .sh file contain?
What is a file basename?
Which scripting language is best for automation?
What language is bash written in?
What does egrep mean?
Explore about environment variables?