Many Linux-based machines run Bash as their standard scripting engine, but some distributions, like Alpine and Debian, don't. Testing your script with other shells can help with portability.

Simply put, a Shell Script is a program that is run by a UNIX/Linux shell. It is a file that contains a series of commands which are executed sequentially as if they were entered on the command line ...

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.

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 Prentice Hall, all rights ...

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Semantics-driven static analysis is being proposed by a group of researchers as way to ensure that Unix, Linux, and macOS shell programs are safe, bug-free, and work as expected. However, the ...

2nd course in the Advanced Embedded Linux Development .Instructor: Dan WalkesThis course provides an introduction to Kernel programming for the Linux operating system, and the development of Linux ...

Programming languages: PowerShell nets more Linux, MacOS, Windows developers Microsoft's PowerShell open-sourced scripting language is striking a chord with more developers.

Shell scripting, via the provided sh-compatible shell and attendant utilities, is flexible and quick when some local intelligence is needed—for example, reacting to the push of a doorbell by snapping ...