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I automated Linux backups with a simple bash script and cron (and it’s better than a GUI)

Skip one-click backup apps. This rsync script gives you full control over what gets saved and when, plus logs and a few hard-won lessons.
PC Magazine

shell script

A file of executable commands for Unix and Linux. Created in a text editor, when the file is run, each command is executed until the end of the file is reached. After the shell script is written, it ...
Hackaday

Tracing The #!: How The Linux Kernel Handles The Shebang

One of the delights in Bash, zsh, or whichever shell tickles your fancy in your OSS distribution of choice, is the ease of which you can use scripts. These can be shell scripts, or use the Perl, ...
Linux Journal

Quick Tutorial on How to Use Shell Scripting in Linux: Coin Toss App

Simply put, a Shell Script is a program that is run by a UNIX/Linux shell. It is a file that contains a series of commands which are executed sequentially as if they were entered on the command line ...