The new second edition of Dave Taylor and Brandon Perry's classic Wicked Cool Shell Scripts, published by No Starch Press, features a smorgasbord of favorite scripts and 23 brand-new ones. Subtitled ...

I am a longtime BASIC (both Visual and QBasic) programmer, under Windows and DOS. Is there a language similar to BASIC that I can use for general-purpose programming tasks under Linux? I know that ...

Hello,<BR><BR><BR>I am trying to learn shell scripting and am <BR>presently writing some simple scripts I want<BR>to write a script that will check each directory<BR>to see if a file of a certain name ...