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Welcome to 2026, Bash Scripting Legends!

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New year, new opportunities, new scripts to automate our lives.

To everyone in this Bash Scripting Group — welcome to 2026! This is the year we write cleaner scripts, break fewer servers, automate smarter, and finally stop copy-pasting that same cron job without comments.

Whether you’re here to:

master Bash from the basics

automate Linux and server tasks

improve DevOps workflows

or just learn practical scripting that actually gets used

You’re in the right place.

Let’s share:

  • tips & tricks
  • real-world scripts
  • mistakes we’ve learned from
  • questions (no matter how small)

Here’s to open doors, clean logs, and scripts that just work.
Happy New Year, and happy scripting!

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Nice reminder about finally commenting cron jobs, Gift Balogun, that hit a little too close for me. What’s one small Bash habit you’re trying to fix first this year?

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Honestly @[Kevin Ryker] Consistent error handling
I’m making it a habit to always check exit codes set -e, || exit 1 and log failures properly instead of assuming scripts “just worked.” Small change, but it saves a lot and i mean a lot of silent headaches later.

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