Similar to our on-going Unix Sed and Unix Awk series, we will be posting several articles on Bash scripting, which will cover all the bash scripting techniques with practical examples.

Shell is a program, which interprets user commands. The commands are either directly entered by the user or read from a file called the shell script.
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1. Read technical blogs – There are several technical blogs out there, that produce high quality content everyday. There are 9600+ technology blogs listed in the technorati website. Browse the technology blog list and read the blogs that interests you. As always you can browse our blog archive section for Linux related articles that you might have missed.

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Question: I would like to understand the basics of how to write and execute Cobol program on Linux OS. Can you explain it with a simple example?

Answer: In this article, let us review very quickly how to write a basic Hello World Cobol program and execute cobol program on Linux or Unix OS.

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This article is part of the on-going Awk Tutorial Examples series. In our earlier awk articles, we discussed about awk print, awk user-defined variables, awk built-in variables, awk operators, and awk conditional statements.

In this article, let us review about awk loop statements – while, do while, for loops, break, continue, and exit statements along with 7 practical examples.
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A while back we tried to customize unix prompt to look like Angelina Jolie.

Oh boy, didn’t I fail miserably in that attempt? Well, that didn’t stop me from trying an extreme makeover for mysql> prompt.

Let us face it. The following mysql> prompt is boring. Nobody wants to see it. Let us change the default mysql> prompt to something functional and useful.
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Question: How do I get source code of any Linux command?

Answer: For Debian family Linux distributions, you can get source code for any Linux commands using one of the two methods mentioned below.
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This article is part of the on-going Awk Tutorial Examples series. In our earlier awk articles, we discussed about awk print, awk user-defined variables, awk built-in variables, and awk operators.

In this awk tutorial, let us review awk conditional if statements with practical examples.
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