Shell scripting is a lot more powerful than many people realize. ... you can jump into Bash scripting without prior coding or scripting experience. ... there's no question that it's a valuable skill.

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… ...

The new second edition of Dave Taylor and Brandon Perry's classic Wicked Cool Shell Scripts, published by No Starch Press, features a smorgasbord of favorite scripts and 23 brand-new ones.Subtitled ...

And So into the Coding. As with every game, the hardest part is really having a good random number generator that generates truly random values. That's actually hard to affect in a shell script though ...