For this article, I thought it would be beneficial to go back to some basics of shell scripting and look at how functions work. Most script writers probably eschew using functions because it's a bit ...

If you've been keeping track of my column, you'll know that we're building a Blackjack game as a shell script. Why? Because most shell scripts are far too boring to study without nodding off, so ...

A command line processor for Unix that adds extensions to the Bourne shell. Created at Bell Labs by David Korn and other contributors in the 1980s, the Korn shell (ksh) includes many C shell functions ...