All kinds of things can go wrong with your shell scripts, but they don't have to. Let's look a some debugging tips that can help ensure your scripts run the way you intend. The first step in debugging ...

Give your scripts understandable names and they'll be easier to find and easier to use. I often start my scripts by calling them "tryme" until they've been proven to work pretty well. Then I give them ...

There are several ways that a single file on a Unix system can be referenced by more than one name. By creating a symbolic link, for example, you might refer to a file both by the name of the file and ...

Our birthday tribute to Linux might have been a little lacking. So we turned the mic over to a custom-written Linux script running on Ubuntu to let the OS to talk a ...

Jack Wallen shows how you can create a Linux shell script that requires a password without having to save a password within the script. Image: dennizn/Adobe Stock ...

Developer Andy Szybalski has released Shellsilver 1.0, a Mac OS X tool that lets you execute UNIX shell scripts directly from the Finder. You execute the scripts by double-clicking on them. When a ...

COMMENTARY--Any fair-sized enterprise has both Unix and Windows systems in it. The rise of internet protocols like HTTP has given us a basis for some level of universal interoperability, but many ...