I realize this might throw a spanner into the editorial works here at Linux Journal, but after a two-month sidetrack on how to analyze letter usage in English to give you an edge in Hangman (yeah, I ...

The shell does far more than run commands. Here’s how Bash expands your input behind the scenes so you can write cleaner, ...

#!/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 ...

The Linux set command allows you to change the value of shell options or to display the names and values of shell variables. Rarely used, it is a bash builtin, but is quite a bit more complicated than ...

I'm not sure if this is possible, but this is what i'd like to do:<BR>I need to right a shell script that will run within a loop within a perl script. Is there a way ...

There I was, trying to come up with a topic for this column, when I did what I usually do when stumped: I sent a question out to my Twitter followers. This time, I got a great answer, from John ...