With even Windows offering a Linux shell, this is a good time to learn this language. Unfortunately the Linux shell is very idosyncratic, and hence a difficult language to master. There are few ...

Shell programming involves grouping together a number of shell commands and constructs into a file (called a shell script) to perform a routine task. The analog in OpenVMS is the creation of a DCL ...

So, you want to learn Linux shell programming? This text and CD-ROM package covers the essential Linux shells (bash and tcsh) and three key Linux shell programming utilities (grep, sed, GNU awk).

It would be interesting to learn why shell programming is still going strong. There are several contenders in the land of scripting languages for Unix systems; some of them really strong and well ...

Computerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into the most widely-used programming languages. Previously we have spoken to Alfred v. Aho of , S. Tucker Taft on the , Microsoft about its ...

You can post questions about KSH, CSH, SH, BASH, PERL, PHP, SED, AWK and OTHER Unix shell scripts and shell scripting languages here: I’m hardly an expert in these things as I’ve only recently gotten ...

Recently got shown how to do shell programming in our Java class. I've never done this before and honestly I'm not sure what the point is, except for the speed of using a CLI. Is there any point to ...

A new system, PaSH, has been developed to make computer programs run faster while also delivering accuracy in the Unix shell. The Unix shell is a 50-year-old programming environment that is still ...

Both shell scripts and DCL command procedures use only commands and constructs that the standard operating system can interpret. Use of a high-level language compiler is not necessary. As a general ...