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

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 ...

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 ...