Big Nerd Ranch has released “Core Mac OS X and Unix Programming,” a book by Mark Dalrymple and Aaron Hillegass that was previously only available only as a student guide for the US$3,500 Big ...

A critical vulnerability in the Bourne again shell, simply known as Bash and which is present in most Linux and UNIX distributions and Apple’s Mac OS X, has been discovered and administrators ...

Apparently, the internet has more deep-seated security bugs to worry about than Heartbleed. Researchers have discovered a longstanding flaw in a common Unix command shell (bash) for Linux and Macs ...

Intro. In shell programming languages like UNIX or Linux the text files conclude with a new line operator "\n" also known as the line feed and its ASCII code is 0A.. A DOS Text file concludes a line ...

BEGIN and END. Two unique patterns, BEGIN and END, execute commands before gawk starts processing the input and after it finishes processing the input.The gawk utility executes the actions associated ...

Bug in Bash shell creates big security hole on anything with *nix in it [Updated] Could allow attackers to execute code on Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X.

In a prompting maneuver similar to conjuring up an AI-hallucinated Linux shell, someone named gfodor on Twitter discovered that OpenGPT could simulate calling a vintage dial-up BBS, including ...