Unix and Linux environments have long relied on shells like Bash and Zsh, which serve as command line interpreters for interacting with the system. Shell programming remains hugely popular – it ...

A program (binary, or executable) is a file on disk somewhere, in a recognized format. Common formats include ELF on Linux, ...

A new system, PaSH, has been developed to make computer programs run faster while also delivering accuracy in the Unix shell. The Unix shell is a 50-year-old programming environment that is still ...

Semantics-driven static analysis could be used to improve the safety, correctness, and performance of Unix, Linux, and macOS shell scripts, researchers say. Credit: Ronin83 / Shutterstock ...

Here at work we use an old SCO UNIX system for some of the day to day operations. To make my role as desktop support a little faster I was hoping to write a script that would kill all of the TTYs ...

I know "encrypt" isn't the right description here. It's more like trying to "obfuscate" or "scramble" a password in a plaintext shell script. Say you have a UNIX shell script that does FTP to ...

Adding Comments in Shell Just like in many other programming languages, we use “#” (the hashtag symbol) to add comments in the shell script. In the Vim editor, open the text file. And write a comment ...