If you're not yet comfortable with writing scripts on Unix and Linux systems, this post might get you off to a healthy start.

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 ...

However, you can easily create a shell script that contains a file — even an archive of many files — and then retrieve the file and act on it at run time.

I've been doing the UNIX systems thing (Solaris, HP-UX and Linux) for a while now but the one thing that I still sometimes get lost on is shell scripting. Now let me start with the usual ...

Is there a language similar to BASIC that I can use for general-purpose programming tasks under Linux? I know that shell scripting is much more powerful than MS batch files, but the syntax seems ...