Taking a look at variable scope, pipes and while-loops in various Linux and Unix shells.

You almost certainly have speed dial set up on your home, office and mobile phone. It saves time, ensures against a failing memory and allows you to work smarter.

A beautifully constructed timeline of Unix which includes modern day Unix descendants such as Solaris and Mac OSX as well as Linux. This timeline is not very much unlike the mind map of Linux I had created a long time back. But this timeline also provides the year when the Unix/Linux flavor was born.

"Computerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into the most widely-used programming languages. Previously we spoke to Alfred v. Aho of AWK fame, and in this article we chat to Chet Ramey about his experience maintaining Bash. Bash, or the Bourne-Again Shell is a Unix shell created in 1987 by Brian Fox.

How to inventory your filesystem using a simple shell one-liner in Linux and Unix, for all shells from ash to zsh.

Part four of a five part post series on setting up Linux and Unix servers securely.

Part three of a five part post series on setting up Linux and Unix servers securely.

BitTorrent announced Wednesday that the company has named Doug Walker, former chief executive of Alias Systems as its new CEO.

A Unix and Linux Command Line Dictionary For Those Of Us Who Love The CLI :)