Linux Journal, representing 25+ years of publication, is the original magazine of the global Open Source community.

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 ...

The shell does far more than run commands. Here’s how Bash expands your input behind the scenes so you can write cleaner, ...

If you're not yet comfortable with writing scripts on Unix and Linux systems, this post might get you off to a healthy start. Creating a script on a Unix or Linux system can be dead easy or ...

Once a script is prepared and tested, you can get a significant task completed simply by typing the script's name followed by any required arguments. Developing scripts to handle your more complicated ...

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 ...

Semantics-driven static analysis could be used to improve the safety, correctness, and performance of Unix, Linux, and macOS shell scripts, researchers say. Semantics-driven static analysis is being ...

A new system, PaSH, has been developed to make computer programs run faster while also delivering accuracy in the Unix shell. The Unix shell is a 50-year-old programming environment that is still ...

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 shell ...