In a way, this book began with a script: the lab setup script. This recipe is here to show you that a simple script is nothing more than a series of commands put together. Now, we have been writing scripts throughout this book. However, some of the information may have been scattered across different chapters and recipes. In this recipe, we will bring it all together and write a simple script. Also, given the cookbook structure of this book, it is important that we cover this topic for those who skipped straight to this point.
The scenario here is that you have to write a script that will give out the current date and time, and show the hostname of the computer the script is running on. It also welcomes the user by his/her username. The catch here is that you need to have a space in the name of the script, and you need to ensure that the script should be...
