Bash scripting

Microsoft used its "Drawbridge" technology, developed by Microsoft Research, to bring SQL Server to Linux. Drawbridge is an adaptation of the Library OS concept. It's a form of virtualization specifically for application sandboxing. Drawbridge played a role in getting the Bash shell to run on Windows 10, too.

Harness the power of bash and learn how to scrape websites for exciting new images every morning. So, you want a cool dynamic desktop wallpaper without dodgy programs and a million viruses? The good news is, this is Linux, and anything is possible. I started this project because I was bored of my ...

Can you do math on the Linux command line? You sure can! In fact, there are quite a few commands that can make the process easy and some you might even find interesting. Let's look at some very useful commands and syntax for command line math.

While the Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V keyboard shortcuts already work in the Windows 10 Command Prompt, once you entered a Bash prompt, these keyboard shortcuts would stop working. This occurs because the Windows Subsystem for Linux uses a different keyboard input mode, which did not have the ability to ...

When you create a new user in Linux with the useradd command, it not only creates the new user, but can also generate the new user home directory, enable bash history, and a number of other necessary features for proper user functionality. But sometimes something goes wrong and you are faced with ...

During the installation of Linux on your Servers, you are asked to set a hostname. You may ... Fortunately—within the world of Linux—setting or changing a hostname is very, very easy. I'm going to ... Unless you've modified your bash prompt, you should see at least part of the hostname in the prompt. If not ...

If you've never have heard of “fish” related to Linux, you might be interested in knowing that it's a shell that some refer to as “exotic.” One of its claims to notoriety is that it promises to be quie a bit friendlier than the older shells, such as bash. In fact, "fish" stands for “friendly interactive shell” and it promises to ...

WSL is effectively a layer that translates applications' Linux kernel system calls into something Windows 10 understands, allowing programs – such as Bash and sed – built for the open-source operating system to run on Win 10. It has been embraced by developers who might otherwise have jumped ...

It is distributed widely as the default login shell for most Linux distributions. We've rounded up some of the most popular Bash-related articles for your weekend reading. Parsing an RSS ... That reduces complexity on the website, with only a little extra work by parsing the RSS news feed with a Bash script.

Microsoft announced this week that its Azure Service Fabric microservices application development platform is moving to an open development process, which will be housed at the GitHub code repository. The code for Azure Service Fabric will follow the MIT open source licensing model, and there will be ...

In fact, last year I wrote an article on how to use CentOS as a Linux desktop on VMware Horizon 6.2, and another article outlining five reasons for ... sudo bash mkdir agent cd agent tar -xzf VMware-horizonagent-linux-x86_64-7.4.0-7380911.tar.gz. cd VMware-horizonagent-linux-x86_64-7.4.0-7380911/ .

But, I don't like to miss out on March Madness, so a few years ago, I created a Bash script to help me fill out my March Madness bracket. This worked pretty well. ... Rather than run a Bash script, why not create a web page that automatically fills in the winners for each round? That way I won't really even ...

Getting started with Debian in WSL is really easy, but first you need to install the Windows Subsystem for Linux. To do this, open the Windows ... Once your account has been created, you will be dropped into a Bash shell where you can begin to enter commands. The first command you should enter is sudo ...

Cryptocurrency-mining malware-scum have started to write code that evicts rivals from compromised computers. The miner in question was first noticed by SANS Internet Storm Center handler Xavier Mertens. Mertens spotted the PowerShell script on March 4, and noting that it kills any other CPU-greedy ...

Ubuntu's arrival, and that of SUSE, are part of a recent push by Microsoft to embrace Linux and the open source community more broadly. This began with the arrival of the Windows Subsystem for Linux in 2016, allowing users to use the Bash shell from within Windows. Keep in mind that this is limited to the ...

Microsoft has ruled the operating system world for many years, and it's staggering to see how many computers run Microsoft Windows in all its many variants. In May 2017, Microsoft announced it had an installed base of 1.4 billion. Sure, there also are much more than a billion devices now running Android, ...

There were times when getting a piece of hardware functioning in Linux required quite a lot of research and even a bit of bash scripting. Today, however, that is not the case. Hardware recognition is as good on Linux as it is with any platform. So the idea, as a user, of having to write drivers is no longer part ...

Linux history — the record of commands that you've used on the command line — can simplify repeating commands and provide some very useful information when you're trying to track down ... For bash users, this information all gets stuffed into the .bash_history file; for other shells, it might be just .history.

To be quite honest, if Ansible had nothing but its ad-hoc mode, it still would be a powerful and useful tool for automating large numbers of computers. In fact, if it weren't for a few features, I might consider sticking with ad-hoc mode and adding a bunch of those ad-hoc commands to a Bash script and be done ...

Let's say you've written a bash script that scans all of your Linux servers in your data center for uptime. Such a file could contain the ... So what happens when you're working with a bash script that cannot accept input, in order to okay the addition of the remote SSH fingerprint? Fortunately, the developers of ...

Even popular browsers are open-source, including Mozilla's Firefox, Opera, and the Chromium project, which feeds into the not-so-open-source Chrome browser. Open-source software like Linux is so critical to developers that Microsoft even integrated it into Windows 10 with Bash on Ubuntu on Windows.

If you aren't a Linux user and you watch someone who knows what they are doing use Bash — the popular command line interpreter — you might get the impression they type much faster than they actually do. That's because experienced Linux users know that pressing the tab key will tend to complete ...

If you aren't a Linux user and you watch someone who knows what they are doing use Bash — the popular command line interpreter — you might get the impression they type much faster than they actually do. That's because experienced Linux users know that pressing the tab key will tend to complete ...

It was the summer of 2007 and I was at Linux World Expo in San Francisco. I had just finished updating the second edition of Knoppix Hacks and in addition to attending the conference I was there to promote it and my other books at the O'Reilly booth. Somehow I got word that Linux Journal was looking for ...

Windows admins cottoning on to the CLI have a new option: integrated Bash, a Linux shell. But Bash doesn't stack up one-to-one with PowerShell for Windows deployments.

SwipeSense handles large-scale distributed IOT hardware networks that produce massive amounts of real-time sensor data. We're looking for someone who is excited about designing and building with the future of big data solutions in-mind. At SwipeSense, big data means BIG data. We're not talking about millions of data ...

The official online, self-paced $800 training course is called Penetration Testing with Kali Linux and includes 30 days of lab access. Because it relies on Kali Linux (the successor to pen testers' previous favorite Linux distro, BackTrack), participants need a basic understanding of how to use Linux, bash ...

"So, in FTL, the story is this lone ship on a suicide mission, and succeed or fail, it's try your best... you bash your head against the wall 100 times, and the game story resets each time, and ... Into The Breach comes out for Windows today for $15, and then will come the Mac and Linux versions down the line.

I've been using the high-security Qubes operating system for quite some time now, and I wrote a multipart series for Linux Journal in the past. While I've been using it, I've gathered a few useful tips for it, and ... #!/bin/bash VM=$(zenity --list --title 'Open in which VM?' --column='VM Name' untrusted dispVM ...