The most arcane shell commands and options are explained with plenty of examples. “Here” documents, a way to feed input to a script or command within the script itself, are explained thoroughly.

Command-line essentials When you ssh into a Unix-like system, the system looks up your user account information and spawns a new shell process based on your preferences. This shell process is then ...

Shell basics The Unix command line shell is roughly equivalent to the command window in Microsoft Windows (cmd or PowerShell).

A file of executable commands for Unix and Linux. Created in a text editor, when the file is run, each command is executed until the end of the file is reached. After the shell script is written ...

Making use of previously entered commands can help you remember the location of files previously edited, canremove the need to re-enter long path names and can save you a lot of typing mistakes ...

As a Linux refugee, one of the features that makes Automator particularly compelling is that it allows me to integrate command-line operations, commands, and pipelines into my Automator workflows.