It hurts to see your programs taken apart and their weaknesses exposed, but it will make you a better programmer.

Dungeons, Dragons and Dice—a script that lets you roll those 3d6 and 2d20 that a surprising number of games require. In my last article, I talked about a really simple shell script for a game called ...

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 ...

Control flow is the backbone of how programs and shells decide what to run, when, and under what conditions. From if-else logic to loops, jumps, and shell expansions, mastering these concepts can make ...