If you often find yourself writing scripts from scratch when you know you wrote something similar not all that long ago, maybe it’s time to make your scripts a bit more reusable. The usefulness ...

More than just writing help scripts, here documents are useful any time that you want to enter multiple lines and have them piped to a command. We use them most often from the shell directly.

Wicked Cool Shell Scripts: 101 Scripts for Linux, OS X, and Unix Systems by Dave Taylor and Brandon Perry, 2 nd edition, no starch press (2017) is a book that can lift you up a notch in the super ...

This month, I thought it would be interesting to take a bit of a detour from my usual multi-month programming projects and instead focus on a specific topic that is of great importance to people ...

-bash: who.output: cannot overwrite existing file That's useful for everyone, and doubly so for us shell script hackers, right? Dave Taylor is a 26-year veteran of UNIX, creator of The Elm Mail System ...

But it is interesting. We might keep it in our back pocket for writing scripts that need to process json or XML. We like the Forth syntax, but not everyone will. We also like the data typing.

Windows users are spoiled. Linux users can create and run shell scripts too, with a little more effort. Run shell scripts in Linux If you want to create a script and run it in Ubuntu, a few extra ...

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