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Shell scripting is a lot more powerful than many people realize. With the right commands, shell scripting can automate many ...

I haven't dug into any game programming for a while, so I thought it was high time to do something in that realm. At first, I thought "Halo as a shell script?", but then I came to my senses. Instead, ...

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 ...

Working knowledge of Linux command line operations, shell programming, Git, makefiles. Completion of ECEA 5305 Linux System Programming and Introduction to Buildroot.

Semantics-driven static analysis could be used to improve the safety, correctness, and performance of Unix, Linux, and macOS shell scripts, researchers say. Semantics-driven static analysis is being ...

Why learn Linux? Let’s start with the fact it’s growing so fast, experts say it’ll eventually be a dominant desktop and server OS. Or how about that hiring managers are clamoring to add Linux pros to ...

Programming languages: PowerShell nets more Linux, MacOS, Windows developers Microsoft's PowerShell open-sourced scripting language is striking a chord with more developers.

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 ...