Expect is a venerable tool for scripting interactive command-line tools. One normally sees expect coupled with the TCL programming language -- for example, in the DejaGNU test environment.

The awk utility provides a powerful way to search for text strings using regex. This great tool will help you solve many Bash shell script needs.

The ssh command line utility is a staple for people who work on remote systems. ssh stands for "secure shell," so as you may expect one of its most common uses is as a remote shell. While that is perhaps its most common use, it isn't the only, or most interesting, thing you can do with ssh.

The official stable release of Ubuntu 10.04 is only days away.  That means we can finally list all of the new features to expect in the next longterm-support version of Ubuntu, without having the developers change them every other day.  With that in mind, here's a look at what to expect when you upgrade to Lucid Lynx on Thursday.

The Bash Debugger Project (bashdb) lets you set breakpoints, inspect variables, perform a backtrace, and step through a bash script line by line. In other words, it provides the features you expect in a C/C++ debugger to anyone programming a bash script.

You need to automate a task across many machines...Well, not to give up hope just yet, because there is a nice little tool that is extremely powerful, yet not widely utilized. it's called 'expect'.

You know, I've never found any real use for a shell script. Recently, I found an actual reason to write one for moving and converting audio files using a few less keystrokes.

Every two years, Canonical prepares an LTS (Long Term Support) release of one of the best desktop Linux distributions available today... This article is here to inform Ubuntu veterans, people that have discovered Ubuntu recently and future Ubuntu users, about the things that they should expect from Hardy Heron, in April 2008!

Whilst an increasing number of recent converts are avoiding it (and I don't blame them really), the shell is still a key tool for the majority of GNU/Linux users. Shell scripts are knocked-up, shared and deployed in all sorts of circumstances - some simply time-saving, others life-saving.