An easy step-by-step guide to the Bash command-line shell and shell scripting ...

Once a script is prepared and tested, you can get a significant task completed simply by typing the script's name followed by any required arguments.

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

Bash scripting is every Linux administrator's Swiss Army knife. Learn how using a for-loop in conjunction with Bash scripts can produce powerful results.

But fortunately, the NCAA ranks the teams for you, so I wrote a Bash script that filled out my March Madness bracket for me. Since teams were ranked 1–16, I used a "D16" method borrowed from tabletop ...

I'm tweaking this script, and I'm having a lot of trouble testing my changes. It seems like my shell, Bash, is not respecting whitespace. Could someone help me? Basically, I have a script that ...

A recent post about debugging constructs surprised me. There were quite a few comments about how you didn’t need a debugger, as long as you had printf. For that matter, we’ve all debugg… ...