It hurts to see your programs taken apart and their weaknesses exposed, but it will make you a better programmer.

A developer has released 'Prod,' a shell script that merges a note taker, task manager, pomodoro timer, calendar scheduler, and address book into under 300 lines of code. Designed for Linux and macOS, ...

Last month, we looked at signals, the rudimentary mechanism that processes on a Linux box can use to communicate events and state changes. We talked about how each of the signals can be sent manually ...

It is no secret that we often use and abuse bash to write things that ought to be in a different language. But bash does have its attractions. In the modern world, it is practically everywhere. It can ...

Microsoft Windows PowerShell has been a long time coming. Windows has never enjoyed the powerful shell scripting environments that its Unix rivals have long included. That’s changed now with the ...