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 ...

Bunco—a dice game that makes Yahtzee look complicated! HOW-TOs, Programming, Shell Scripting I haven't dug into any game programming for a while, so I thought it was high time to do something in that ...

The above command will execute the shell file and will display the output in the terminal. Adding Comments in Shell Just like in many other programming languages, we use “#” (the hashtag symbol) to ...

Semantics-driven static analysis is being proposed by a group of researchers as way to ensure that Unix, Linux, and macOS shell programs are safe, bug-free, and work as expected. However, the ...

This is in contrast to a typical programming language, where variables are names and strings are in some kind of quote marks. There are also reserved words for built-in commands like for loops but ...