Now that we have successfully created and executed a shell script, it’s time to start building on the functionality available to shell scripts.
The topics to come may sound heavy, but they’re actually very cool, and can serve as a basic primer for anyone interested in learning programming.
For anyone not interested in programming, the logic that can be applied in shell scripting is none-the-less a useful skill to have.
The first of these, that I found downright enthralling (when I first began programming years ago), are variables.
It’s official; I’m oblivious.
In an upcoming series I’m going to start exploring the basics of shell scripting (writing your own little programs that run from the command line and make things happen).
Piping and redirection are two tools that, although I have 
In previous posts, I have touched on both 
In a 
If you’ve used the Linux command line much at all, you’re probably familiar with yum.