This shell’s approachability and clever features will make your coding life easier.

In any programming language, idioms may be used that may not seem obvious from reading the manual. Often these usages of the language represent ways to make your code more compact (as in requiring ...

Conditional logic is the decision-making backbone of programming, from C++ and Bash scripts to Excel formulas. Whether you’re ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Mariia Bulycheva discusses the transition ...

A reader wrote me this week that his bash scripts were complaining “out of memory”; what should he do? It didn’t take long to get him moving again. While my colleague Sandra Henry-Stocker usually ...

The situation with the Shellshock bug is so fluid and complicated that even insiders have trouble keeping it all straight. These questions and answers may help you to understand the bug -- actually ...