Many Linux-based machines run Bash as their standard scripting engine, but some distributions, like Alpine and Debian, don't. Testing your script with other shells can help with portability.

Do you want to create a Shell script in your Linux system? This guide will take you through how to create a shell script using multiple text editors, how to add comments, and how to use Shell ...

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 ...

Linux Shell Programming for Beginners: Master BASH, a UNIX/Linux shell and command line interpreter that will help you automate commands, save time, and streamline a program.

Working knowledge of Linux command line operations, shell programming, Git, makefiles. Completion of ECEA 5305 Linux System Programming and Introduction to Buildroot.

If you don't love the shell you're using on your Linux system, change it! There are plenty, including bash, fish, ksh, tcsh, zsh.

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 ...

Programming languages: PowerShell nets more Linux, MacOS, Windows developers Microsoft's PowerShell open-sourced scripting language is striking a chord with more developers.

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 ...