Computerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into the most widely-used programming languages. Previously we have spoken to Alfred v. Aho of , S. Tucker Taft on the , Microsoft about its ...
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, ...
<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">[ -z $STATUS ] && $STATUS=2</pre><BR><BR>From context in the rest of the script in question, it seems pretty clear that the above ...