README File for Mastering UNIX Shell Scripting - Second Edition Author: Randal K. Michael ===== Publisher's note: Please note when downloading the compressed files ...

The purpose of this assignment is to become more familiar with the concepts of process control and signaling. You’ll do this by writing a simple Unix shell program that supports job control. The only ...

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 ...

One particular frustration with the UNIX shell is the inability to easily schedule multiple, concurrent tasks that fully utilize CPU cores presented on modern systems. The example of focus in this ...

As a Linux user, you probably run commands in your terminal using one of two shells: bash or zsh. Maybe you’ve heard of their predecessors, like sh or csh; you might even be aware of newer shells like ...

An associative array is an array which uses strings as indices instead of integers. To see how associative arrays work, we’re going to look at both the Korn shell and Perl, though only the newest ...