In any programming language, idioms may be used that may not seem obvious from reading the manual. Often these usages of the language represent ways to make your code more compact (as in requiring ...

What if your command-line tools could think for themselves, analyzing data, automating tedious tasks, and even tailoring solutions to your specific needs? The integration of AI agents like Claude Code ...

You will most often use Bash functions to make your shell life easier; instead of typing out complex command pipelines, create a function and inject arguments. You'd place these in your bashrc file, ...

It certainly isn’t a new idea to compile a language into an intermediate language. The original C++ compiler outputs C code, for example. Enhanced versions of Fortran were often just conversions of ...

This bug, baptized "Shellshock" by Security Researchers, affects the Unix command shell "Bash," which happens to be one of the most common applications in those systems. That includes any machine ...

UPDATE, 9/25: The Bash vulnerability, now dubbed by some as "Shellshock," has been reportedly found in use by an active exploit against Web servers. Additionally, the initial patch for the ...