The command-line interface (CLI) is the cornerstone of interacting with the Linux operating system. It allows users to enter commands directly, offering greater control and flexibility compared to ...

I've been doing the UNIX systems thing (Solaris, HP-UX and Linux) for a while now but the one thing that I still sometimes get lost on is shell scripting. Now let me start with the usual disclaimer ...

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 ...

I am a longtime BASIC (both Visual and QBasic) programmer, under Windows and DOS. Is there a language similar to BASIC that I can use for general-purpose programming tasks under Linux? I know that ...

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 ...

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