Linux Journal, representing 25+ years of publication, is the original magazine of the global Open Source community.
Using the Linux command line is more than just typing commands—it’s programming in real time. The same commands you run interactively can be saved into scripts, letting you automate repetitive tasks.
Shell scripting is one of those skills that are absolutely invaluable on especially UNIX and BSD-based systems like the BSDs, the two zillion Linux distributions as well as MacOS. Yet not every shell ...