It's a good idea to get into the habit of full paths in all shell scripts and cron jobs, the environment can be rather different to what you're expecting. I tend to declare commonly used binaries in ...

I am looking around for some advice here. I have been asked to make a script that automatically creates a user, home directory, sets the shell to nologin, downloads a tar of scripts, installs said ...

Build a bash script that controls what, where, and when backups run. Schedule the executable backup.sh with cron and review logs and destination after runs. Test the script, use absolute paths to ...

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