There are quite a few exit codes used on Linux systems, though no listing you can display when you’re feeling curious. In fact, you won’t see the numeric codes unless you specifically ask for ...

A remote exploit (CVE-2014-6271) has been in bash discovered that potentially affects any application that uses environment variables to pass data from unsanitised content, such as CGI scripts ...

Knowing how to work with and display exit codes on the Linux command line or in scripts can help make errors more obvious.

In any programming language, idioms may be used that may not seem obvious from reading the manual. Often these usages of the language represent ways to make your code more compact (as in requiring ...

Serious security bugs in key parts of the latest Linux code have been fixed, but some small glitches have been introduced, according to a recent scan. In December, Coverity looked at version 2.6.9 ...

Just want to start with the simple fact that I'm a relative bash newbie and i'm probably doing it wrong. Anyway, i'm working on a script and I have a program that doesn't always execute reliably ...

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The Linux development community now has an organized way to deal with the eternal problem of developer conflict.