Linux is powerful, flexible, and can do just about anything. However, to really get the most out of Linux and your computer (s), there are certain skills and habits you need to bolster; otherwise, you ...

While Bash is the most popular default shell for Linux distributions, there are other shells you can use, such as tcsh, zsh, and fish, among others. They all have their own features.

Image: dennizn/Adobe Stock SEE: (TechRepublic Premium) What you’ll need to go passwordless for Linux shell scripts How to install sshpass nano ~/backup !/bin/bash #Copy data to a remote server ...

The first software that I was actually paid to develop was a 2-page shell script that prompted the user for a dozen or so pieces of information, before launching a set of cooperating processes. Those ...

More than just writing help scripts, here documents are useful any time that you want to enter multiple lines and have them piped to a command. We use them most often from the shell directly.

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Bunco—a dice game that makes Yahtzee look complicated! HOW-TOs, Programming, Shell Scripting I haven't dug into any game programming for a while, so I thought it was high time to do something in that ...

Linux Shell Scripting: A Project-Based Approach to Learning Shell scripts are among the most powerful tools available for all Linux users and likely the most flexible, too.