INTRODUCTION First and foremost: I don't mean to lecture anyone here about BASH and what you can do with it. What I would like to do is to get some of you guys to think about procedures you do over and over again every day. I mean that annoying thing that you have to do several times a day that's taking away time from important other stuff you are doing. If you are working with Linux, you should know what I mean. Now imagine you wouldn't have to do that anymore. That would be great, wouldn't it? GETTING STARTED This guide explains simple automation ideas in Linux only. To try out some of my ideas, you can set up a lab server here on Linuxacademy or use an AWS instance if you have one running If you are using Debian or Ubuntu often, you will have to run 'apt-get update' before you can install any new program or repo. This can be automated in a very simple way. Look at my code snippet below. I would suggest you make this file executable and...