Ubuntu Unleashed 2016 Edition: Covering 15.10 and 16.04, Eleventh Edition

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Chapter 13. Automating Tasks and Shell Scripting

In This Chapter

Scheduling Tasks

Basic Shell Control

Writing and Executing a Shell Script

References

In this chapter, we cover ways to automate tasks on your system using task schedulers. This chapter is also an introduction to the basics of creating shell scripts, or executable text files written ...

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