Shell scripting is an often forgotten programming environment, relegated to simple automation tasks and little else. In fact, it’s possible to achieve much more complex tasks in the shell.

Bunco—a dice game that makes Yahtzee look complicated! HOW-TOs, Programming, Shell Scripting I haven't dug into any game programming for a while, so I thought it was high time to do something in that ...

Shell scripts are not compiled — at least, not typically — so the shell only reads what it needs to do the work. That means if your script is careful to exit, you can add as much “garbage ...

Phishing emails with RAR archives exploit Linux filename injection to deliver VShell backdoor, bypassing antivirus defenses ...

After the shell script is written, it is made usable by changing its file status to "executable" with the change mode command (see chmod). Shell scripts are the Unix/Linux counterpart to Windows ...

The malicious shell script also disables Linux security modules like SElinux, Apparmor. These modules are designed to implement mandatory access control (MAC) policies.

Simply put, a Shell Script is a program that is run by a UNIX/Linux shell. It is a file that contains a series of commands which are executed sequentially as if they were entered on the command line ...