Scripting

Ten Cool Coreutils Commands

While a few commands, such as ‘cd’ are built directly into bash; many of the most important commands come from coreutils, a GNU package containing over a hundred commands. Some are the well known commands such as ‘ls’, ‘mv’ and ‘cat’. While there are some more obscure ones that are not always discovered because there […]

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Scripting

Root Check

Sometime it is useful to determine if a script is being run as root or not. A simple check can be performed at the start of a script before anything important is done. The bit of code below will do this. # Check the script is being run by root if [ “$(id -u)” != […]

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