This reminds me that shell scripting is my absolute weakest area when it comes to linux. I know I need to learn how to script much better to become effective at managing my linux box and performing ...

Every time we publish a Linux hack that uses a shell script, someone will chime in about how awful it is to program shell scripts. While we like the ubiquity and efficiency, we can’t disagree that the ...

I haven't dug into any game programming for a while, so I thought it was high time to do something in that realm. At first, I thought "Halo as a shell script?", but then I came to my senses. Instead, ...

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 ...

#!/bin/bash clear echo "Hello world!" The first line tells the operating system what shell to use to interpret the script and the location of the shell. Double quotes do not prevent Bash from ...

Dungeons, Dragons and Dice—a script that lets you roll those 3d6 and 2d20 that a surprising number of games require. In my last article, I talked about a really simple shell script for a game called ...

Computerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into the most widely-used programming languages. Previously we have spoken to Alfred v. Aho of , S. Tucker Taft on the , Microsoft about its ...