Many Linux-based machines run Bash as their standard scripting engine, but some distributions, like Alpine and Debian, don't. Testing your script with other shells can help with portability.

A program (binary, or executable) is a file on disk somewhere, in a recognized format. Common formats include ELF on Linux, ...

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.

Simply put, a Shell Script is a program that is run by a UNIX/Linux shell. It is a file that contains a series of commands which are executed sequentially as if they were entered on the command line ...

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… ...

Image: dennizn/Adobe Stock SEE: (TechRepublic Premium) What you’ll need to go passwordless for Linux shell scripts How to install sshpass nano ~/backup !/bin/bash #Copy data to a remote server ...

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

Semantics-driven static analysis is being proposed by a group of researchers as way to ensure that Unix, Linux, and macOS shell programs are safe, bug-free, and work as expected. However, the ...

Linux systems offer a lot of choices for what shell you use. Some you'll love and others you maybe won't, but it's easy to try any of them out and change your shell when you find the one you prefer.

Bunco—a dice game that makes Yahtzee look complicated! HOW-TOs, Programming, Shell Scripting I haven't dug into any game programming for a while, so I thought it was high time to do something in that ...