In an era of automated updates and "easy" installers, Slackware 15.0 is a jarring reminder of what Linux used to be.

Are you tired of the Windows 11 UI? Are you jealous of your friends' Linux desktops? If so, you might want to give one of these alternative shells a try.

No installs required: history search, redirection, job control, completions, and other built-in terminal features that exploit the power of Linux.

The main driving force behind this is Red Hat developer Jocelyn Falempe, who has been pushing for the switch to Kmscon for ...

The yesterday.sh shell script is a small bash script which, by default, determines todays date and then moves it back one day to get yesterdays date. Most of the logic is quite obvious but the edge ...

I’m going to go ahead and admit it: 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 fingertip access ...

For many Windows users, PowerShell is just a strange black window you open once in a while to paste a command from a forum. In reality, PowerShell is one of the most powerful tools built into Windows.

Microsoft says Windows PowerShell now warns when running scripts that use the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet to download web content, aiming to prevent potentially risky code from executing. As Microsoft ...

Semantics-driven static analysis could be used to improve the safety, correctness, and performance of Unix, Linux, and macOS shell scripts, researchers say. Semantics-driven static analysis is being ...

Exit codes, also known as return codes or exit statuses, are numerical signals that a program, command, or script sends back to the operating system (or calling process) when it finishes running. You ...

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, ...