Shell scripting is a lot more powerful than many people realize. With the right commands, shell scripting can automate many tasks and even make life easier for the user. Here's why you shouldn't ...

Shell scripts are not compiled — at least, not typically — so the shell only reads what it needs to do the work. That means if your script is careful to exit, you can add as much “garbage ...

I'm guessing that each of us uses the command line differently and seeks to accomplish different tasks. Mine are sometimes very specialized, like the script I wrote that lets me easily transform the ...

Learn how to use the timeout command in Bash scripts to prevent infinite loops when waiting for a service to come online.

Last month, we looked at signals, the rudimentary mechanism that processes on a Linux box can use to communicate events and state changes. We talked about how each of the signals can be sent manually ...

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 ...