https://shiv.me/tags/shell-scripting/ Recent content in Shell Scripting on Shivanand Velmurugan — Product leader. Systems thinker. Hugo en © Shivanand Velmurugan Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://shiv.me/posts/2011/life-in-the-bash-universe/ Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 https://shiv.me/posts/2011/life-in-the-bash-universe/ <p>If you write a lot of scripts to automate tasks, you probably already know this. However, if you don&rsquo;t, and you are still reading, you are probably a programmer, in which case, you really should be learning how to script in BASH!</p> <p>A couple of pointers for you:<br> 1. Using a -x, in the shebang line &ldquo;echo&quot;s every line before executing. This turns out to be quite useful for debugging shell scripts<br> 2. It&rsquo;s quite easy to make BASH print a countdown.</p>