In addition to the fairly common forms of input/output redirection the shell recognizes something called process substitution. Although not documented as a form of input/output redirection, its syntax and its effects are similar.

Using Script, Screen, Mkfifo and shell redirection to enhance user session logging and tracking.

So, I figured that I should publish these before murphy’s law ensures that I either have a 1% chance of living the next day, or that the Australian Government censors me.

Here we go, bash scripting is nothing more then combining lots of UNIX commands
to do things for you, you can even make simple games in bash
(just UNIX commands) or as in normal cases, batch files to control things
in your computer.

"For some time I had been trying to come up with an elegant solution for starting all the multiple shells I need when working on my Ruby on Rails projects. I find that if I have the following shells, it really helps with command history..."

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

Did you know that there are two basic kinds of USB 2.0 drives? I didn’t. But, now thanks to Robert L. Scheier’s article, Not all USB drives are created equal, I now know that are significant differences between drives. And, in particular those differences matter a lot to live USB capable Linux distributions like Fedora 9.

"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.