Shell scripting is one of those skills that are absolutely invaluable on especially UNIX and BSD-based systems like the BSDs, the two zillion Linux distributions as well as MacOS. Yet not every ...

If you're not yet comfortable with writing scripts on Unix and Linux systems, this post might get you off to a healthy start. Creating a script on a Unix or Linux system can be dead easy or ...

Addresses manipulating and maintaining files within the UNIX file system; creating and editing text ... writing and debugging shell scripts; submitting and executing processes.

This article aims to explore these scripting languages, offering practical examples and guidance to harness their potential effectively. Bash (Bourne Again SHell) is the default shell on most Linux ...

Semantics-driven static analysis could be used to improve the safety, correctness, and performance of Unix, Linux, and macOS shell scripts, researchers say. Semantics-driven static analysis is ...

Batch files, though far less sophisticated than their Unix shell script counterparts, nonetheless have many of the important features that I have become accustomed to working with on my Unix systems.