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 sleep ...

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 Prentice Hall, all rights ...

hey all, I need to set up a shell script that ssh's into a remote server then runs some commands. I have minimal control over the remote server, and only slightly more control over the server the ...

Putting the program on the command line allows you to write short gawk programs without having to create a separate program-file. To prevent the shell from interpreting the gawk commands as shell ...

The original UNIX shell (the Thompson shell) was a simple command interpreter. Subsequently, the Mashey shell and the Bourne shell blended in programming capabilities. Since Bash is a direct ...

In the main text area of the shell action, we need to specify what command-line expression we want Bash to execute. In this case, all we want it to do is run the markdown command. I have already ...

Well-established scripting languages, like Python, can do system calls, read and write files or directories, and do all the things shell can do. Without workarounds like “% as a wildcard”.