Shell scripting is a lot more powerful than many people realize. With the right commands, shell scripting can automate many tasks and even make life easier for the user. Here's why you shouldn't sleep ...

The Bash shell replaced the Bourne shell in Unix-based operating systems in 1989, and has become the standard since on both Mac OS X and almost all Linux systems.

Bug in Bash shell creates big security hole on anything with *nix in it [Updated] Could allow attackers to execute code on Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X.

On Unix — the progenitor of Linux — there was /bin/sh. It was simple, by comparison to today’s shells, but it allowed you to enter commands and — most importantly — ex… ...

A critical vulnerability in the Bourne again shell, simply known as Bash and which is present in most Linux and UNIX distributions and Apple’s Mac OS X, has been discovered and administrators ...

Why is POSIX.2 this bad?. A clear understanding of the lack of cohesive job scheduling in UNIX requires some history of the evolution of these utilities. The shell as defined by POSIX.2 has primitive ...

He wrote the first version of Unix in assembly language for a wimpy Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) PDP-7 minicomputer, spending one week each on the operating system, a shell, an editor and an ...