Every time we publish a Linux hack that uses a shell script, someone will chime in ... wants to change your shell to be a full-blow programming language called Crush. On the face of it, it looks ...

but as you learn to better utilize programming languages, you'll get a better idea of what's going on under the hood. You'll need to grant proper permissions for the script to work if you want it ...

Truly good ideas tend to apply in all situations. The phrase is “never run with scissors”, not “don’t run with scissors unless you are just going into the next room.” Software ...

Bash allows you to work with custom file descriptors beyond the standard 0 (stdin), 1 (stdout), and 2 (stderr). You can also separate stdout and stderr cleanly: ...

A high-level programming language that is interpreted (translated on the fly) rather than compiled ahead of time. A scripting language may be a general-purpose programming language or it may be ...