Here are some basic skills to get started with bash, one of the best shells for preparing and using scripts on Linux. Scripting in Linux–putting commands into a file so you can run them as a group—is ...

The shopt builtin offers 53 settings that can alter how bash behaves. Read this post and then refer to bash's man page to follow up on how these settings might work for you. If you haven’t tried it ...

In Bash shell scripting, functions are ways to group the set of instructions together to get a specific outcome. You can think of functions as a mini script. Functions are also called procedures and ...

This repository contains the materials for D-Lab’s Bash and Git workshop, a fast introduction to using the terminal for git. In this workshop, we provide an introduction to using bash, the ...

In the video last week I showed how to use the bash complete command for simple use cases. Today I'll show you some of the additional ways that you can use the command for more complex scenarios. To ...

Xv6 is a teaching operating system. Xv6's use of the x86 makes it more relevant to students' experience than V6 was and unifies the course around a single architecture. Xv6 is a nifty operating system ...

Abstract: The universality of Bash gives penetration testers, the flexibility of executing powerful terminal commands without the need to install a compiler or an integrated development environment.