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 pres… ...

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.

Do you want to create a Shell script in your Linux system? This guide will take you through how to create a shell script using multiple text editors, how to add comments, and how to use Shell ...

Jack Wallen shows how you can create a Linux shell script that requires a password without having to save a password within the script.

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 ...

Dave Taylor has been hacking shell scripts on UNIX and Linux systems for a really long time. He's the author of Learning Unix for Mac OS X and Wicked Cool Shell Scripts. You can find him on Twitter as ...

If you're not yet comfortable with writing scripts on Unix and Linux systems, this post might get you off to a healthy start.

It's designed to manage vSphere. When Microsoft open-sourced PowerShell, the company truly made it a cross-platform scripting language. Moreover, shortly after PowerShell was open-sourced, VMware labs ...