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It's telling that IDEs have thrived most on non-Linux or Unix platforms, particularly Windows. Windows has made less use of ...

Perl, Python, and Ruby are commonly used for CLI control and management scripts, and they offer a plethora of modules that can make all kinds of functions easier to develop.

Of course, you can also call out to programs, and sometimes it is just easier to make a call to an awk or Python script to do the heavy lifting. But let’s stick with bash -isms for handling strings.

CompTIA Linux+ is a vendor-neutral certification that validates the skills to automate administration tasks and streamline ...

For this same reason, I've begun to develop many, admittedly small, applications with Bash. Although Python, for example, has many modules to import and extend functionality, Bash has thousands of ...