Shell scripting is an often forgotten programming environment, relegated to simple automation tasks and little else. In fact, it’s possible to achieve much more complex tasks in the shell.

Small shell scripting languages are simple for a reason… at one time scripts could often load, run, and then exit faster than a compiled C version using system calls.

So, what’s Shell scripting? Shell Scripting is defined as an open-source program that’s run by Linux or Unix shell. Through shell scripting, you can write commands to be executed by the shell. Lengthy ...

It is possible to run .sh or Shell Script files in Windows 11 or Windows 10 using Windows Subsystem for Linux. In this post, we will show you how to run a Shell Script file in Windows 11/10.

In a real scenario, this could be anything like downloading files, creating backup, validating user input, etc. Also, to give an example we are assuming only four steps in our script below which is ...

I had a simple shell script that I could call directly from within Vim itself to perform those steps. This same approach is still viable on Mac OS X, but I wanted to explore a more Mac-native ...