Few aspects of Unix system administration are more intimate than the relationship between the admin and their chosen shell. After all, the shell is the most fundamental interface to the system ...

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… ...

The best way to not have to debug shell scripts is to not put bugs in to start with. There are tools to help you strive for that. Then again, you could write your shell scripts in C.

The point of using a script to build your NCAA March Madness basket bracket isn't to take away the fun of the game. On the contrary, since I don't have much familiarity with basketball, building my ...

Here are some basic skills to get started with bash, one of the best shells for preparing and using scripts on Linux.

If you're not yet comfortable with writing scripts on Unix and Linux systems, this post might get you off to a healthy start.

Jack Wallen shows how you can create a Linux shell script that requires a password without having to save a password within the script.

Luckily I recently bought myself a couple of nice shell scripting references which stress using bash.

But fortunately, the NCAA ranks the teams for you, so I wrote a Bash script that filled out my March Madness bracket for me. Since teams were ranked 1–16, I used a "D16" method borrowed from tabletop ...