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Unix shell script kit is a collection of utility functions and constants. The kit works with POSIX shells, including bash, zsh, dash, ksh, sh, etc. All suggestions are welcome and appreciated.

Abstract: In recent years, code-reuse attacks have been used to exploit software vulnerabilities and gain control of numerous software programs and embedded devices. Several measures have been put in ...

Yes, Esben Weile Kjær is 6’5” with blue eyes, but he’s a man in fine art rather than finance—and the world is better off for it. The ascent of this 32-year-old Dane has been breathtaking, but the ...

What is the functions Command? In Fish shell, functions are blocks of reusable code that you can define and call by name. The functions command is a built-in utility that helps you manage these ...

Over the past few weeks, we've been discussing programming language popularity here on ZDNET. Most recently, I aggregated data from nine different rankings to produce the ZDNET Index of Programming ...

This command will print out the path of your current shell, such as /bin/bash or /bin/zsh. The /etc/passwd file contains important user account information. You can also use this file to find your ...

Shell scripting is one of those skills that are absolutely invaluable on especially UNIX and BSD-based systems like the BSDs, the two zillion Linux distributions as well as MacOS. Yet not every shell ...