Every time we publish a Linux hack that uses a shell script, someone will chime in about how awful it is to program shell scripts. While we like the ubiquity and efficiency, we can’t disagree ...

IDEs like Visual Studio Code and text editors such as Vim and Emacs enhance scripting with features like syntax highlighting and code completion. Explore tools like ShellCheck for script analysis and ...

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It is easy to dismiss bash — the typical Linux shell program — as just a command prompt that allows scripting. Bash, however, is a full-blown programming language. I wouldn’t presume to tell ...

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This article is reprinted from the book A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming 3rd edition, with permission of the author and publisher ...

There are quite a few shells on Linux system and more that can ... It also supports scripting and aliases. The tcsh shell is an enhanced C shell (csh). Some of its key feature include programmable ...

Using its knowledge of the Python programming language (that powers ... maneuver similar to conjuring up an AI-hallucinated Linux shell, someone named gfodor on Twitter discovered that OpenGPT ...