What the post-install script became was an automation dream for sysadmins. If you could describe all of the commands and configuration file changes you wanted to make to a system inside a shell script ...

Here are some basic skills to get started with bash, one of the best shells for preparing and using scripts on Linux.

Generally when we think of shell scripts we think of editable text, but it's possible to add binary data to your shell script as well. In this case we're going to talk about adding a binary payload to ...