The most arcane shell commands and options are explained with plenty of examples. “Here” documents, a way to feed input to a script or command within the script itself, are explained thoroughly.

Shell basics The Unix command line shell is roughly equivalent to the command window in Microsoft Windows (cmd or PowerShell).

Command-line essentials When you ssh into a Unix-like system, the system looks up your user account information and spawns a new shell process based on your preferences. This shell process is then ...

Unlike shell scripts on Unix systems, batch files are run by typing their names without their extensions. So to run a batch file named mapdrive.bat, you would type only “mapdrive”.

What you’ll learn: The basics of interacting with computers using the Unix shell (a.k.a. the command line), which is a foundational skill for all other technical computing. You’ll learn how to ...

A shell script is a list of commands that are read by the shell and executed in order. Shell scripts also support some programming language fundamentals, such as variables, flow control and data ...