Bash scripting is a type of programming language. "Scripting" is a list of commands and parameters that are to be executed one after the next in sequential order.

Bunco—a dice game that makes Yahtzee look complicated! HOW-TOs, Programming, Shell Scripting I haven't dug into any game programming for a while, so I thought it was high time to do something in that ...

Every time we publish a Linux hack that uses a shell script, someone will chime in about how awful it is to program shell scripts. While we like the ubiquity and efficiency, we can’t disagree… ...

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 ...

We've spent the last three columns talking about the basic nuts and bolts of shell script programming, so I think it's time to start digging into a real shell script, and build something interesting ...