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An introduction to the most useful special and environment variables in Bash

If you're writing a Bash script, you will invariably need to pass values to it—aka arguments or positional parameters. Bash's ...
Hackaday

shell scripting

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 ...
Linux Journal

DirB, Directory Bookmarks for Bash

Imagine browsing the Web and having to type the full Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) path each time you visit a Web page—painful. However, since 1993, when browser bookmarks were added to the Mosaic ...
TechRepublic

PowerShell tutorial: The basics of PowerShell scripting

PowerShell can save you a lot of time on Windows admin tasks, but to use it effectively you need to understand how it works. Here's a crash course in Windows PowerShell scripting basics to get you ...