In this paper, the concept of shell scripting and programming is discussed and various aspects of shell programming are also studied. A shell script is a computer program designed to be run by the ...

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At times, we need to write shell scripts that are interactive and user executing them need to monitor the progress. For such requirements, we can implement a simple progress bar that gives an idea ...