Are you pondering learning how to script on Linux? Perhaps you wanted to create a service or automate something, but thought Bash was too much. The if-statement represents a huge chunk of how a script ...

Laura Varley is the Careers editor at Silicon Republic. She has a background in technology PR and journalism and is borderline obsessed with film and television, the theatre, Marvel and Mayo GAA. She ...

Farnham, UK–As any good programmer knows, the first thing users of Unix or Linux operating systems come face to face with is the shell. “Shell” is the Unix term for a user interface to the ...

Here are some basic skills to get started with bash, one of the best shells for preparing and using scripts on Linux. Scripting in Linux–putting commands into a file so you can run them as a group—is ...

Bash is it a computer language? Of course... but sometimes it just looks like the Linux command line. As a result books on the "language" have to make a choice of targeting programmers or users. Books ...