Big Nerd Ranch has released “Core Mac OS X and Unix Programming,” a book by Mark Dalrymple and Aaron Hillegass that was previously only available only as a student guide for the US$3,500 Big ...

As a programming language, it contains control-flow primitives and string-valued variables. As a command language, it provides a user interface to the process-related facilities of the UNIX operating ...

The second chapter covers basic shell programming and is enough to get you started writing simple scripts which can serve as launchpads into more advanced shell programming. ... The eleventh chapter ...

If you get a Mac, you can quickly run all the main operating systems, which is a big plus for those learning programming. It’s difficult to run OS X on a Windows PC (or Linux PC), and you need ...

Bug in Bash shell creates big security hole on anything with *nix in it [Updated] Could allow attackers to execute code on Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X.