I really have too many tray icons. You know the ones. They sit on your taskbar, perhaps doing something in the background or, at least, giving you ...

A file of executable commands for Unix and Linux. Created in a text editor, when the file is run, each command is executed until the end of the file is reached. After the shell script is written, it ...

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Shell scripting is one of those skills that are absolutely invaluable on especially UNIX and BSD-based systems like the BSDs, the two zillion Linux distributions as well as MacOS. Yet not every shell ...

Jack Wallen shows how you can create a Linux shell script that requires a password without having to save a password within the script. Image: dennizn/Adobe Stock ...

Oh happy day! I got an e-mail from a reader with a shell script question that didn't appear to be homework from a programming class or anything to do with hacking passwords. The reader wrote: I am ...

Uptycs Threat Research outline how malicious Linux shell scripts are used to cloak attacks and how defenders can detect and mitigate against them. Siddartha Sharma and Adhokshaj Mishra Evasive ...

I recently switched to Mac OS X as my primary desktop operating system after spending over a decade on Linux. Although Apple’s operating system supplies practically all of the command line tools I ...