Details on Microsoft's support for the Bash shell on Windows have surfaced after its initial Build keynote announcement. The Bash shell actually is the native Bash command line tool running on Windows ...

At its annual BUILD conference which started yesterday, Microsoft announced that after the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, developers will be able to install and run command line tools and native ...

If you don't love the shell you're using on your Linux system, change it! There are plenty, including bash, fish, ksh, tcsh, zsh. There are quite a few shells on Linux system and more that can be ...

For many users who get started with the command line in Linux, there’s a good chance they’re using Bourne Again Shell, or Bash. Bash is the default shell on Mac OS X, and Windows users can use Bash ...

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

Yes, Microsoft is making it much easier to run the Bash shell, based on Ubuntu, and soon SUSE or Fedora, on Windows 10. No, hell hasn't frozen over. After testing the waters for years, Microsoft has ...

One of the biggest surprises at Microsoft’s Build developer conference last year was that the company was building support for the Bash shell on top of an Ubuntu-based Linux subsystem right into ...

Microsoft's self-professed love for Linux seemingly has no bounds. According to a session description from the company's Build 2016 developer conference which leaked overnight, Microsoft is planning ...

On Unix — the progenitor of Linux — there was /bin/sh. It was simple, by comparison to today’s shells, but it allowed you to enter commands and — most importantly — execute lists of commands. In fact, ...

Linux has generally always had a good reputation when it comes to security. But no computer operating system is perfect, and there are always vulnerabilities that eventually need patching. This time ...