Learn about Netcat: your network Swiss knife in Shell Scripting
Do you want to test connectivity to your mail server on port 25? Do you want to make a quick port scan? Perhaps you...
Learn about Crontab and at job in Linux Shell Scripting
How many times have you found yourself doing a repetitive task at a specific time? Do you remember when you found that the database...
How to Automate FTP transfers in Linux Shell Scripting
Whether you are responsible for uploading files regularly to a remote web server, or syncing configuration files among a number of machines, most of...
Learn More about Effective One-Liners in Linux Shell Scripting
In the previous article, we had a talk on One-Liners. We have seen how a composite statement that is as short as fitting in...
Learn about Effective One-Liners in Linux Shell Scripting
Do you remember what the definition of Shell Scripts is?!
I told you in our first article in this series that a Shell Script is...
Generate Random Passwords in Shell Scripting via Character Array Method
In the previous article, we have learned how to generate random passwords using two methods:
1. The mkpasswd command.
2. Calculating the Hash for a random...
Learn to Generate Random Data and Password in Linux Shell Scripting
After learning how to generate random numbers, we are going to learn how to generate random data, and random passwords. Some of the concepts...
Learn How To Write Interactive shell scripts
An interactive script is a one that interacts with the user and requires user input. In this type of scripts, data flow in both...
Learn Validating User Input in Linux Shell Scripting
When a script gets one or more inputs from the user, most of the time it expects the following:
A specific number inputs.
Inputs of specific...
Learn Linux Shell Scripts for Network – Part 2
In this article, we are going to complete what we have started in part1.
The host command
This command is used to convert names to IP...