Bash stands for "Bourne Again SHell" and is named after Stephen Bourne, one of the creators of Bash's predecessors. Bash ...

Shell scripting is one of those skills that are absolutely invaluable on especially UNIX and BSD-based systems like the BSDs, the two zillion Linux distributions as well as MacOS. Yet not every ...

The original shell was simple but as people started to use Unix for application development and scripting, it was too limited. It didn’t have variables, it didn’t have control flow, and it had very ...

In this post, we look at scripting basics—at how to get started if you have never built a script before. Unix and Linux systems today have a number of shells that you can use. Each shell is a ...

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 capabilities by evolution, and this has led to ...

What is Shell Scripting in Linux? So, what’s Shell scripting? Shell Scripting is defined as an open-source program that’s run by Linux or Unix shell. Through shell scripting, you can write commands to ...

He developed the influential Korn shell, essentially a programming language to direct Unix operations that’s now available as open-source software. Author and technology historian Salus recalls ...

They’re designed to teach the fundamentals of research computing: the Unix shell, programming basics, and how to access and use Picotte (Drexel’s high-performance computing cluster). They’re ...