It is easy to dismiss bash — the typical Linux shell program — as just a command prompt that allows scripting. Bash, however, is a full-blown programming language. I wouldn’t pres… ...

Learning Bash is really useful, especially if you want to unlock the full power of a Unix or Linux system. Here are some of the most compelling reasons to look at Bash scripting as something to learn.

Here are some steps you can take to ensure that your bash scripts work as intended and are easy to update.

My favorite bash trick definitely is brace expansion. Brace expansion takes a list of strings separated by commas and expands those strings into separate arguments for you. The list is enclosed by ...

When using the Linux terminal, we often make mistakes. At other times, tasks feel just plain tedious. Fortunately, there are many terminal tricks that help you amend those mistakes and perform the ...

A new skills survey rounds up the usual list of suspects for the most popular programming language -- JavaScript, Python, Java, et al. -- but lists Bash scripting skills as the surprising leader in ...

In what might well be a technology industry first, an enterprising student at the Holberton School of Software Engineering in San Francisco, California, penned and posted a three-minute in-class ...