If you don't love the shell you're using on your Linux system, change it! There are plenty, including bash, fish, ksh, tcsh, zsh.

Unix, of course, invented the pipelining concept. But in Unix-like systems -- including Linux and OS X -- the data that's passed from one command to the next is weakly structured ASCII text.

How to Open Shell Prompt in Linux. The developers of Ubuntu Linux have worked hard to make their operating system easy for businesses to set up, use and maintain. There are still occasions ...

A built-in is a Linux command that's part of whatever shell you're using. Can you tell what commands are built-ins and which are not?

One of the most powerful features of Unix and Linux is that using traditional command line tools, everything is a stream of bytes. Granted, modern software has blurred this a bit, but at the comman… ...

One of the most confusing things when starting with Linux is the terminology. Some people will use terms interchangeably, ...

Simply put, a Shell Script is a program that is run by a UNIX/Linux shell. It is a file that contains a series of commands which are executed sequentially as if they were entered on the command line ...

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