Although bash scripts are regularly maligned, they do have a certain simplicity and ease of creation that makes them hard to resist. But sometimes you really need to do some heavy lifting in ...

Learning scripting is a valuable skill, with Python being the most popular language, potentially boosting career prospects. You might think that Linux scripting might only be for wizards.

Bash is a great scripting language for one primary reason: I can log into any Linux box and my entire IDE is at my fingertips as long as my shell is set to /bin/bash. Oh sure, it’s not python ...

If you need to write a script for repeated use—particularly one with significant logical branching and evaluation—I strongly recommend a "real language" instead of Bash. Luckily, there are ...

Three years ago, Lynn Greiner interviewed the big cheeses responsible for the popular scripting languages PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python, Ruby and JavaScript to find out where they believed the languages ...