Tutorial series

An Introduction to Shell Scripting

An Introduction to Shell Scripting

Introduction

This series covers all of the basics of writing shell scripts. It begins by introducing the reader to shell scripting and takes them all the way up to writing conditional statements.

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How To Write a Simple Shell Script on a VPS

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How To Write a Simple Shell Script on a VPS (Part 2)

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How To Write a Simple Shell Script on a VPS (Part 3)

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