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 presume to tell you that ...

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You need to package up a bunch of files, send them somewhere, and do something with them at the destination. It isn’t an uncommon scenario. The obvious answer is to create an archive — a zip or tar ...

Ever wondered why programming in Bash is so difficult? Bash employs the same constructs as traditional programming languages; however, under the hood, the logic is rather different. The Bourne-Again ...

If you want to run Linux and Windows 10 or 11, you're probably deciding whether to set up a dual-boot system or install a distribution using Windows Subsystem for Linux, or WSL. Here are some reasons ...

Jack Wallen shows how you can create a Linux shell script that requires a password without having to save a password within the script. Image: dennizn/Adobe Stock ...

Microsoft's recent move to open-source its once Windows-exclusive PowerShell appears to paying off, with the language now popping up in the top 50 of the Tiobe index of the world's most popular ...

Three years after releasing PowerShell Core for Linux and macOS, Microsoft has announced PowerShell 7, the newest version of PowerShell Core. Only in March, Microsoft released PowerShell Core 6.2 but ...

Amazon Web Services and VMware as Microsoft launch partners? You read it right. As part of its move toward more openness, Microsoft today said its popular and powerful PowerShell command-line ...