Ever wondered why programming in Bash is so difficult? Bash employs the same constructs as traditional programming languages; however, under the hood, the logic is rather different. The Bourne-Again ...

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One of the most powerful features of Unix and Linux is that using traditional command line tools, everything is a stream of bytes. Granted, modern software has blurred this a bit, but at the command ...

A new system, PaSH, has been developed to make computer programs run faster while also delivering accuracy in the Unix shell. The Unix shell is a 50-year-old programming environment that is still ...

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 ...

This reminds me that shell scripting is my absolute weakest area when it comes to linux. I know I need to learn how to script much better to become effective at managing my linux box and performing ...

No installs required: history search, redirection, job control, completions, and other built-in terminal features that ...

I recently switched to Mac OS X as my primary desktop operating system after spending over a decade on Linux. Although Apple’s operating system supplies practically all of the command line tools I ...

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 shell ...