With flock you can implement basic job control in bash. That’s very handy when you have a script that is running in multiple instances and doing file operations. I was writing a script to return some data from a switch stack to zabbix and as zabbix does run the script for every item it gets … Read morehandling multiple script instances in BASH
I really start to love bash. And dislike python. I’m not good at both, but i like to automate boring, repeative tasks. Being a pentester and network admin using linux (of course) i’m working a lot in the shell, editing connfig files, checking network devices and such things. I encounter a lot of problems which … Read moreAutomate the boring stuff with bash
It seems that sometimes smart bash completion is turned off by default so second commands and such as in apt install packagename are not auto completed. To activate it, in /etc/bash.bashrc file uncomment the following lines: #if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then # . /etc/bash_completion #fi