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 ...

are primarily command interpreters. This trait has a deep history, stretching all the way to the very first shell and the first UNIX system. Over time, UNIX shells acquired the programming ...

Unlike other popular operating systems, where the command line is a scary proposition for all but the most experienced veterans, in the Linux community, command-line use is encouraged.

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 ... that database with SQL-like commands: ls | where {type ...

It is easy to dismiss bash — the typical Linux shell program — as just a command prompt that allows ... You might add your own items to this list, but this one is what comes to my mind ...

Although Apple's operating system supplies practically all of the command line tools I know ... I'm going to show you two of the ways that I use shell scripting in Automator services in order ...