What’s the difference between programming and scripting anyway? There are a billion variations of this question posted across the internet and the answer is not always as simple as it might seem. The ...

A shell script is a text file that contains a sequence of commands for a Unix-based operating system (OS). It's called a shell script because it combines a sequence of commands in a file that would ...

If you’re comfortable using the command line on Unix or Linux but haven’t fully explored Bash, this book is for you. It’s designed for programmers familiar with languages like Python, JavaScript, or ...

The older Python language, version 2.7, is being deprecated in macOS 10.15 Catalina and won’t be included in macOS 10.16. The same goes for other UNIX scripting languages. Let’s focus on Python first ...

You may notice that I included shells in that list, even though Bruce's white paper doesn't actually mention anything about choosing bash over any other shell.

I totally agree with this point. You've just got to support Perl (and PHP for that matter) as well as Python - there's just too much stuff out there based on it (who can live without SpamAssassin ...