Tag: bash
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System Upgrade – Bash Script
Branching off of the Learning the Shell series of posts, I have started to explore the Writing Shell Scripts chapter of William Shotts’ The Linux Command Line. I am not completely unfamiliar with the concept of writing scripts to automate functions, yet most of my experience with scripting has been in the context of Windows…
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Sunday Review – Week Ending November 23rd, 2025
After working through the Learning the Shell chapter of William Shotts’s The Linux Command Line, I now have a solid foundation in how the shell works and how to interact with it effectively. Here’s a high-level summary of the main concepts covered across the ten sections: 1. What is “the Shell”? 2. Navigation 3. Looking…
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Linux – Learning the Shell (Part 3)
In Part 2 of this series, I summarized the concepts and commands covered in Learning the Shell, Sections 5 through 8, from William Shotts’ online version of The Linux Command Line. In a follow-up post, I revisited two key principles from that week’s study (relative path directory references and globbing) as part of my Sunday…
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Sunday Review – Week Ending November 16th, 2025
Sundays are my designated review days. It’s a time I set aside to revisit the material I’ve worked on throughout the week and identify any concepts, functions, or processes that still feel unclear or that I want more practice with. It gives me a chance to reinforce what I’ve learned and resolve lingering questions. Here…
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Linux – Learning the Shell (Part 2)
As mentioned in my previous post, I am working through the online version of The Linux Command Line by William Shotts. My goal is to internalize this material before I begin the LPIC-1 Study Guide. I completed sections 1 through 4 of the chapter Learning the Shell the other day. Today I picked up where…
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Ubuntu Virtual Machine Setup and Configuration in Hyper-V
I recently acquired a new laptop, replacing my old HP Pavilion dv4 from (yikes…) 15 years ago. My new machine is currently running Windows 11 Pro, but I also wanted to get Linux on it. I am using Hyper-V, the Windows native virtual machine manager. At least to start. My thought is that some shops…
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Adding Linux to the Stack
I’ve been wanting to revisit Linux. I used to run Slackware back in the late 90s (Praise Bob). Then I looked at CentOS about 10 years ago because it was based on Red Hat, was a distribution often recommended for an enterprise environment, I was thinking about going into network engineering, and so – along…