Every time we publish a Linux hack that uses a shell script, someone will chime in about how awful it is to program shell scripts. While we like the ubiquity and efficiency, we can’t disagree that the ...

Xonsh, now in development, provides a shell that combines the Python language with features of Bash Unix and the fish and zsh shells. Pronounced “conch,” the tool works with Linux, Windows, and Mac OS ...

“Why do you know so much shell?” is a question I’m getting a lot at work lately. So yeah, why? And how can you learn it too? There is no secret here: I know the shell well because I was “forced” to ...

Semantics-driven static analysis could be used to improve the safety, correctness, and performance of Unix, Linux, and macOS shell scripts, researchers say. Semantics-driven static analysis is being ...

After testing the waters for years, Microsoft has launched its first service, Azure Cloud Switch, that's based on Linux. PowerShell Core is built on the .NET Framework. It's a task-based command-line ...

Darn. The hype about Monad (that’s the MS code name for the new shell which is also called MSH) got everyone way excited but it turns out that it won’t be included in Longhorn! In a nutshell: “The ...