Joshua L. Ritter is an entertainment executive and screenwriter whose development credits include Netflix's global No. 1 films Outside the Wire, The Weekend Away, and End of the Road. Joshua's ...

Elevate your scripting game with these must-know Bash variables.

Microsoft has been rethinking its commitment to Windows for a while now, with Insider builds of the operating system showing a swing away from web-based user experiences and back to native code. That ...

If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most of the history of personal computing, ...

grep finds lines. cut extracts fields. sort and uniq count and rank. sed edits. awk does all of that, and it does it with logic. Every tool covered so far in this series does one thing well. awk does ...

Of all the reasons Python is a hit with developers, one of the biggest is its broad and ever-expanding selection of third-party packages. Convenient toolkits for everything from ingesting and ...

Steve Ballmer’s darkest fear has come to pass: Linux has worked itself into the deepest innards of Microsoft Windows itself. At the company’s annual Build developer conference this week, Microsoft ...

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The latest release of FreeBSD contains a lot of crucial under-the-hood changes – and drops 32-bit support on both x86 and POWER, although ARM-v7 survives. FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE arrived this week, the ...

Bats is a TAP-compliant testing framework for Bash 3.2 or above. It provides a simple way to verify that the UNIX programs you write behave as expected. A Bats test file is a Bash script with special ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. If you work in a Unix based environment, you need a firm understanding of how chmod numbers work ...