Sysadmin Shell Scripting

A working knowledge of shell scripting is vital if someone wants to become good at system administration tasks. Since this tutorial tackles topics that assume a basic understanding of shell scripting, we strongly urge you to take a look at our Shell Scripting: The Basics article first…

One important aspect of shell scripting is file-oriented utility. A file-oriented utility is basically used as a filter in a pipe.

We can add a ‘-’ to get a more useful result. That is, when we have ‘file -’, the shell waits for the user input and analyses it.