In this post I'll show you how to create a self extracting bash script to automate the installation of files on your system. This script requires coreutils (for cat, tail), awk, gzip, tar and bash.

You need to package up a bunch of files, send them somewhere, and do something with them at the destination. It isn’t an uncommon scenario. The obvious answer is to create an archive — a zip or tar ...

Selects a file (or set of files) and executes a command on that file. This is helpful for batch jobs. /M searchmask Searches files according to a searchmask. The default searchmask is '*' . /S ...