Simply put, a Shell Script is a program that is run by a UNIX/Linux shell. It is a file that contains a series of commands which are executed sequentially as if they were entered on the command line ...

The Windows Subsystem for Linux is bridging the divide between Windows and Linux by letting you run Windows 10 programs directly within a Linux shell. One of the strengths of the Windows Subsystem for ...

PowerShell is a scripting language and an automation and configuration management framework built on the Microsoft .NET Framework. PowerShell is installed by default on Windows Server 2016 and Windows ...

One of the delights in Bash, zsh, or whichever shell tickles your fancy in your OSS distribution of choice, is the ease of which you can use scripts. These can be shell scripts, or use the Perl, ...

Ever since Microsoft announced that PowerShell would be made open source, I have been really curious about what it would be like to run PowerShell on a Linux machine. Would it be like managing a ...

Linux Journal, representing 25+ years of publication, is the original magazine of the global Open Source community.

An open-source cross-platform version of PowerShell, called PowerShell Core 6.0, has been released by Microsoft that not only runs on Windows, but runs on macOS and Linux as well. Going forward, this ...

If you ever think about it, computers are exceedingly stupid. Even the most powerful CPU can’t do very much. However, it can do what it does very rapidly and repeatably. Computers are so fast, they ...