Why Learn Bash Scripting? Bash scripting is a type of programming language. "Scripting" is a list of commands and parameters that are to be executed one after the next in sequential order. Bash ...

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… ...

Computerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into the most widely-used programming languages. Previously we have spoken to Alfred v. Aho of , S. Tucker Taft on the , Microsoft about its ...

Bunco—a dice game that makes Yahtzee look complicated! HOW-TOs, Programming, Shell Scripting I haven't dug into any game programming for a while, so I thought it was high time to do something in that ...

Although the Bourne Again Shell is remarkably capable and certainly has all the basic programmatic structures of more sophisticated programming languages, I think it's nonetheless fair to say that ...