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

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 ...

Every wizened Unix hacker will have his or her own special tool set for using the command line for dev-fu. Here are mine The shell is your friend. But many developers don’t really know the shell, the ...

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 presume to tell you that ...