Chapter 26Automating Jobs

As you begin building shell scripts, you'll probably start to wonder how to run and control them on your Linux system. So far in this book, we've only run commands and scripts directly from the command-line interface in real-time mode. This isn't the only way to run scripts in Linux. There are quite a few other options available for running your shell scripts on Linux systems. This chapter examines different ways you can use to get your scripts started. Also, sometimes you might run into the problem of a script that gets stuck in a loop and you need to figure out how to get it to stop without having to turn off your ...

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