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All kinds of things can go wrong with your shell scripts, but they don't have to. Let's look a some debugging tips that can help ensure your scripts run the way you intend.

One of the most universal experiences of any Linux or Unix user is working through a guide or handbook and coming across an almost unbelievably complex line of code meant to be executed with a shell.

Python should not replace all the bash commands. It is as powerful to write Python programs that behave in a UNIX fashion (that is, read in standard input and write to standard output) as it is to ...

As with anything, I can’t recommend enough to experiment with the command, read the manual pages, and definitely test it against your scripts in a non-production environment until you get a ...

Semantics-driven static analysis could be used to improve the safety, correctness, and performance of Unix, Linux, and macOS shell scripts, researchers say.

Computer scientists have developed a new system to speed up computer programs in the Unix Shell. A new system, PaSH, has been developed to make computer programs run faster while also delivering ...