Simply put, a Shell Script is a program that is run by a UNIX/Linux shell. It is a file that contains a series of commands which are executed sequentially as if they were entered on the command line ...

I am attempting to write a shell script to perform a move of files from one file structure to another. I am using qShell which is an IBM equivalent to Bourne, Korn, and C shell from what I understand ...

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It is no secret that we often use and abuse bash to write things that ought to be in a different language. But bash does have its attractions. In the modern world, it is practically everywhere. It can ...