If you were lucky enough to have internet access in the early '90s, it was likely through a Unix shell account over a dialup modem. Most regular users have moved on to direct internet connections, but ...

To see how associative arrays work, we’re going to look at both the Korn shell and Perl, though only the newest version of the Korn shell (referred to as “korn93”) supports associative arrays.

One particular frustration with the UNIX shell is the inability to easily schedule multiple, concurrent tasks that fully utilize CPU cores presented on modern systems. The example of focus in this ...

For example, a user can traverse the filesystem or direct the output of a program to a file. Although Bash is primarily a command interpreter, it's also a programming language. ... (S.R Bourne, "The ...

If you prefer, you can start an array with 1 and have it work the same (see example below), but the “set -A” syntax and general convention suggest you stick with 0.

Here at work we use an old SCO UNIX system for some of the day to day operations. To make my role as desktop support a little faster I was hoping to write a script that would kill all of the TTYs ...

They are called “environment variables” because most of them affect the way your Unix shell works for you. One points to your home directory and another to your history file.

Bug in Bash shell creates big security hole on anything with *nix in it [Updated] Could allow attackers to execute code on Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X.