Well-established scripting languages, like Python, can do system calls, read and write files or directories, and do all the things shell can do. Without workarounds like “% as a wildcard”.

According to the man page, the 'find' command on OS X should do a case insensitive name match if you use the '-iname' flag rather than plain '-name'. Actual usage on my machine seems to differ ...

HOW-TOs, Programming, Shell Scripting I haven't dug into any game programming for a while, so I thought it was high time to do something in that realm. ... Charting the Open-Source Surge in the ...

Dave Taylor has been hacking shell scripts on UNIX and Linux systems for a really long time. He's the author of Learning Unix for Mac OS X and Wicked Cool Shell Scripts.You can find him on Twitter as ...

Microsoft is open-sourcing its PowerShell command line shell and bringing it to Linux and Mac OS X, as recently rumored. Programming languages: Python rides high but Groovy is cool again with ...

Apple has just released the OS X Bash Update 1.0 for OS X Mavericks, Mountain Lion, and Lion, a patch that fixes the "Shellshock" bug in the Bash shell that we first reported on last week.Bash ...

This article is reprinted from the book A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming 3rd edition, with permission of the author and publisher Prentice Hall, copyright 2012 ...

A vulnerability in Bash, the software used to control the command shell in many flavors of Unix, has been shown to be present in OS X – with some security researchers saying that the flaw could ...

Microsoft today announced that it is open sourcing PowerShell and bringing it to Linux and OS X.. PowerShell is Microsoft’s command line shell for Windows power users, as well as an extensible ...