Linux Mint Essentials

Introduction to scripting

Now that you are beginning to grasp how to enter shell commands, it's a good time to introduce scripting. Although this book will not go into scripting in great detail, covering the very basics of it here will help you study scripting should you decide to do so.

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If you do decide to further your scripting skills (it's a very useful skill for you to learn), there are many books available that are dedicated to this very subject. One such book is Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook, Second Edition, Shantanu Tushar and Sarath Lakshman, Packt Publishing

Bash scripts are actually just text files. So, to get started, you'll need to fire up a text editor. You can use whichever text editor you'd like, such as nano (discussed earlier ...