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 ...

I recently switched to Mac OS X as my primary desktop operating system after spending over a decade on Linux. Although Apple’s operating system supplies practically all of the command line tools I ...

Linux Journal, representing 25+ years of publication, is the original magazine of the global Open Source community.

This Wiley Publishing tome is big (more than 650 pages), useful and very complete. Be warned, however, that its scope is limited to system administration. The purpose of the book is to solve “real ...

ShellScripting-from-Scratch is a structured, example-based learning repository designed to take you from understanding the basics of shell scripting all the way through building automated system ...

Automating repetitive or error-prone system administration tasks Gaining mastery over Bash and other POSIX-compliant shells Building secure, efficient workflows for maintaining Linux systems ...