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 ...

Shell scripts enable every level of system administration and user interaction on Unix and Linux systems. Several system administration tasks can be automated with shell scripts. Disaster recovery ...

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