Command line interpreters are useful because while there may be a huge number of commands and options for controlling an operating system, it's possible that the GUI software on that OS simply isn ...

The Config.sys is the main configuration file used by OS/2, MS-DOS and other operating systems. Config.sys commands loads programs into the memory and sets ups the memory management of the system. The ...

However, all of this comes with some unusual quirks. This is because Bash attempts to fulfill two roles at the same time: to be a command interpreter and a programming language—and there is tension ...

System administrators who spent last week making sure their computers are patched against Shellshock, a critical vulnerability in the Bash Unix command-line interpreter, will have to install a new ...

The BASH vulnerability has been dubbed one of the most serious vulnerabilities ever to be discovered and like Heartbleed back in April, has left many system administrators (Linux, UNIX and Mac OS ...