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A company I used to work at had half its backend stack (specifically everything controlling application launching, watchdogs, alerts, status updates and network management) constructed using Bash ...

Few aspects of Unix system administration are more intimate than the relationship between the admin and their chosen shell. After all, the shell is the most fundamental interface to the system, the ...

Here are some basic skills to get started with bash, one of the best shells for preparing and using scripts on Linux. Scripting in Linux–putting commands into a file so you can run them as a group—is ...