The word “Universal” can refer to good or a bad thing. Universal is working on another Jurassic Park sequel? Probably a bad thing. A universal script to help you consolidate tasks on the Linux commandline? Definitely a GOOD thing! In this video, you’ll see an example of creating a “universal update script” to help you deal with using multiple distributions.
Looping isn’t just something you do in an unknown city while driving with a broken GPS – looping is a very important concept in programming and scripting languages. And that’s what we’ll go over in this episode of this bash scripting series. Specifically while loops, which allow you to continually execute something as long as some sort of condition is met. In this video, you’ll learn all about this so why not just give that play button a click and start learning?
How do you tell whether or not a task completed successfully? Usually, an error message is a sure sign that something went wrong. But when it comes to Linux, you won’t always have that to rely on. In this video, you’ll learn all about exit codes, which is how you determine whether or not a task in Linux is successful or if it failed.
There are a lot of “Ifs” in life. “If” you’ll get the job, “If” you win the lottery, “If” only you knew the answer to all things. But there’s no “Ifs” about it, you’ll learn all about If Statements in Bash with this video. We’ll go through how to set up an if statement, why you’d want to write one in the first place, and some additional bash-related shenanigans!
Bash has all kinds of very useful concepts and there’s a seemingly endless amount of things to learn. So here’s a super easy video for you, all about basic math. Performing math operations in Bash is a bit different than on other platforms, so it may prevent some future confusion if you learn about these things now. And why not? This tutorial is only six minutes long and there’s plenty of worse things you can spend your time on, so check out this Bash tutorial and learn how to perform basic math functions!
Welcome to LearnLinuxTV’s brand new complete course on Bash Scripting! In this 18 episode series, you’ll learn everything you need to know in order to start writing Bash scripts. Each video builds on the previous one, with additional concepts added as the series progresses. Examples will start off easy with shorter scripts, and by the end of the series you’ll be able to write more complex scripts that will actually come in handy while maintaining Linxu servers. In this episode, we’ll take a look at variables.
Moore’s Law of computing is very debatable nowadays, but one tech-related concept that’s absolutely NOT debatable is that everyone learning any scripting or programming language should start with the classic “Hello World” example. And you know what? LearnLinuxTV is a sucker for tradition. So in this episode, you’ll write your very own Hello World script in Bash!
Welcome to LearnLinuxTV’s brand new complete course on Bash Scripting! In this 18 episode series, you’ll learn everything you need to know in order to start writing Bash scripts. Each video builds on the previous one, with additional concepts added as the series progresses. Examples will start off easy with shorter scripts, and by the end of the series you’ll be able to write more complex scripts that will actually come in handy while maintaining Linux servers. In this episode, we’ll take a look at how this course is structured and what you can expect to get out of it.
Supply chain attacks in open source software projects are a real possibility. In fact, we’ve covered actual incidents in previous episodes of this podcast. In this episode, Jay and Joao discuss developing legislation that will require the components within open source projects to be a part of a bill of materials (among other requirements). This is definitely something you’ll want to be aware of if your organization produces open-source software, but even non-developers should be aware of it as well.
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There’s all kinds of software choices when it comes to your homelab, and in this episode, Jay and Tom discuss some recent releases of some of the platforms that are very common with homelabbers. This discussion includes some thoughts on the new release of Fedora, Proxmox, and more!
Fedora 37 was released in November of 2022, and with it comes Linux kernel 6.0 as well as GNOME 43. In this video, Jay will give you his thoughts on this release. Is Fedora 37 worth checking out?
There’s way too much drama with Twitter nowadays, so the alternatives are looking more attractive than ever. Setting up your own Mastodon server is a fun project, and also a potential alternative to Twitter. In this video, Jay walks you through the entire process of setting up your own Mastodon server on a Debian-based VPS.
