The first software that I was actually paid to develop was a 2-page shell script that prompted the user for a dozen or so pieces of information, before launching a set of cooperating processes. Those ...

At first glance, it might not seem to make sense to write shell scripts in C/C++. After all, the whole point to a shell script is to knock out something quick and dirty. However, there are cases where ...

Wicked Cool Shell Scripts: 101 Scripts for Linux, OS X, and Unix Systems by Dave Taylor and Brandon Perry, 2 nd edition, no starch press (2017) is a book that can lift you up a notch in the super Unix ...

Is Shell scripting only useful for couple a quick scripts and should you turn to higher level langauges like Python for anyting complicated? Well, in the right hands, shell scripts can be highly ...

A collection of Korn shell (ksh) + cURL scripts that allow you to manage IBM Cloud PowerVS resources (snapshots, clones, exports) natively from AIX or IBM i, without requiring the IBM Cloud CLI binary ...