When you use Terminal in 10.3 and 10.4, you’re probably using the bash shell—it’s the default, unless you’re using an upgrade install that was previously using tcsh. If you’re not familiar with what a ...

While Linux systems install with thousands of commands, bash also supplies a large number of “built-ins”—commands that are not sitting in the file system as separate files, but are part of bash itself ...

Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 was released nearly 3 years ago. This brought the ability to run the Bash shell and run Linux binary executables that you’d be able to run on Ubuntu Linux.

Kali Linux 2020.4 was released yesterday by Offensive Security, and it takes the big step of changing the default shell from Bash to ZSH. Kali Linux comes with numerous software packages and tools ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Apple hasn’t explained exactly why it’s making this change, but bash isn’t exactly ...

Microsoft said it wouldn’t support graphical applications in Bash on Windows. But enterprising geeks like w2qw on Reddit have already figured out how to run graphical applications with Bash on Windows ...

When creating shell scripts in OS X, I have always indicated the interpreters for OS X scripts:<BR><BR>"#!/bin/bash"<BR><BR>However, after reading the latest Peachpit ...

So I'm setting up my new iBook that they gave me. I want to make the terminal look all spiffy and whatnot because this machine will be more of a thin client than a real heavy use box.<BR><BR>So I've ...