Bash stands for "Bourne Again SHell" and is named after Stephen Bourne, one of the creators of Bash's predecessors. Bash scripting commands are as varied as the command set that Unix's terminal has.

Yet not every shell is the same, and not everybody can be bothered to learn the differences between the sh, bash, ksh, zsh, dash, fish and other shells, which can make a project like Pnut seem ...

Many other Bash operators can be used in normal shell sessions or in Bash scripting, but we’ve covered the major ones. A full listing can be found in the Bash man page, which is accessible by ...

Shell Scripting A Simple Shell Script #!/bin/bash clear echo "Hello world!" The first line tells the operating system what shell to use to interpret the script and the location of the shell. We need ...

It is easy to dismiss bash — the typical Linux shell program — as just a command prompt that allows scripting. Bash, however, is a full-blown programming language. I wouldn’t pres… ...

Scripting languages (starting with EXEC on the mainframe, which later became REXX) were about creating an automation process and running system commands. These evolved into shell scripts and batch ...