Details on Microsoft's support for the Bash shell on Windows have surfaced after its initial Build keynote announcement. The Bash shell actually is the native Bash command line tool running on Windows ...

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 ...

If you don't love the shell you're using on your Linux system, change it! There are plenty, including bash, fish, ksh, tcsh, zsh. There are quite a few shells on Linux system and more that can be ...

For many users who get started with the command line in Linux, there’s a good chance they’re using Bourne Again Shell, or Bash. Bash is the default shell on Mac OS X, and Windows users can use Bash ...

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, ...

Microsoft's self-professed love for Linux seemingly has no bounds. According to a session description from the company's Build 2016 developer conference which leaked overnight, Microsoft is planning ...

As a Linux user, you probably run commands in your terminal using one of two shells: bash or zsh. Maybe you’ve heard of their predecessors, like sh or csh; you might even be aware of newer shells like ...

One of the reasons that I prefer Linux to Microsoft is the command line -- not only is Linux better-suited to management at the command line, but GNU Bash is much more pleasant to use than Microsoft's ...

On Unix — the progenitor of Linux — there was /bin/sh. It was simple, by comparison to today’s shells, but it allowed you to enter commands and — most importantly — execute lists of commands. In fact, ...

Linux has generally always had a good reputation when it comes to security. But no computer operating system is perfect, and there are always vulnerabilities that eventually need patching. This time ...