Many bash scripts use arguments to control the commands that they will run and the information that will be provided to the people running them. This post examines a number of ways that you can verify ...

No, I’m not referring to your coworkers fighting over which version of Linux is the best or even what command is most helpful on the command line. Instead, I’m referring to the arguments that you use ...

I can't use the mount -t smbfs command because it would require me to deal with creating mount points for the share as opposed to letting OS X automate the process, and I reeeeeally don't want to deal ...

In this article, I want to cover a more fundamental aspect of shell scripting: working with command arguments. I suspect that most shell scripts go through an evolution with their command flags, ...

Bring the power of the Linux command line into your application development process. As a novice software developer, the one thing I look for when choosing a programming language is this: is there a ...

It is easy to dismiss bash — the typical Linux shell program — as just a command prompt that allows scripting. Bash, however, is a full-blown programming language. I wouldn’t presume to tell you that ...