At this point in our shell script writing journey, I certainly hope you can read that rather cryptic conditional statement and understand what it does. Ultimately, it's a bit of work to parse ...

It is easy to dismiss bash — the typical Linux shell program — as just a command prompt that allows scripting. Bash, however, is a full-blown programming language. I wouldn’t pres… ...

This Wiley Publishing tome is big (more than 650 pages), useful and very complete. Be warned, however, that its scope is limited to system administration. The purpose of the book is to solve “real ...