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While Linux systems install with thousands of commands, bash also supplies a large number of “built-ins”—commands that are not sitting in the file system as separate files, but are part of bash itself ...

At its annual BUILD conference which started yesterday, Microsoft announced that after the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, developers will be able to install and run command line tools and native ...

Skip one-click backup apps. This rsync script gives you full control over what gets saved and when, plus logs and a few hard-won lessons.

A critical remote code execution vulnerability in Bash, present in almost all Linux, UNIX and Mac OS X deployments, has been discovered. Experts advise immediate patching. A critical vulnerability in ...

One of the biggest surprises at Microsoft’s Build developer conference last year was that the company was building support for the Bash shell on top of an Ubuntu-based Linux subsystem right into ...

Linux’s compgen command is not actually a Linux command. In other words, it’s not implemented as an executable file, but is instead a bash builtin. That means that it’s part of the bash executable. So ...

Lots of Linux programs also depend on a Unix file structure, where everything is a file or directory and simply mounted to the directory tree in one of the standardized Unix directories (dev, etc, ...