Few aspects of Unix system administration are more intimate than the relationship between the admin and their chosen shell. After all, the shell is the most fundamental interface to the system, the ...
Discover the techniques that help popular scripts succeed.
It hurts to see your programs taken apart and their weaknesses exposed, but it will make you a better programmer.
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 ...