Linux is built with certain powerful tools, which are unavailable in Windows. One of such important tool is Shell Scripting. Windows however comes with such a tool but as usual it is much weak as compared to it’s Linux Counterpart. Shell scripting/programming makes it possible to execute command(s), piped to get desired output in order to automate day-to-day usages. In-fact automating these day-to-day task on server is an important task, system administrator has to perform and most of the admins achieve this by writing scripts to be executed as and when required.

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We have tried to cover a large variety of shell programming on a number of aspect in 5 different posts.

Full article here:
Learning Shell Scripting Language: A Guide from Newbies to System Administrator (TecMint)