Unix Shells and the Current Directory(utcc.utoronto.ca)

71 points by ingve 2 years ago | 19 comments

Parsing JSON in Forty Lines of Awk(akr.am)

103 points by thefilmore 1 year ago | 43 comments

Eschewing Zshell for Emacs Shell (2014)(howardism.org)

41 points by pvdebbe 8 months ago | 22 comments

POSIX Is Not a Shell(alganet.github.io)

41 points by gaigalas 4 months ago | 29 comments

The xz attack shell script(research.swtch.com)

553 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 279 comments

Russ Cox blog post analyzing the shell script portion of the 2024 xz/liblzma backdoor, explaining how it injected malicious code into the build.

Background of Linux's "file-max" and "nr_open" limits on file descriptors (2021)(utcc.utoronto.ca)

28 points by cloudripper 2 years ago | 9 comments