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Asciinema lets you record events at the command line and publish the resulting terminal movie on the web.

Shell scripts are often written for simplicity rather than efficiency. A closer look at the processes can lead to easy optimization.

Armed with the right shell commands, you can quickly identify and evaluate file and directory metadata.

With its innovative scripting language, Oil, the Bash-compatible Oil shell aims to make life easier for script developers.

EasySSH lives up to its name and starts SSH connections at the click of a mouse.

Pass is a simple shell script that helps you manage and synchronize passwords using Git.

Bash is known for admin utilities and text manipulation tools, but the venerable command shell included with most Linux systems also has some powerful commands for manipulating binary data.

The smenu tool reduces the effort of creating shell menus to one line, with numerous options for a wide range of design alternatives.

The most fundamental tool needed to administer a cluster is a parallel shell, which allows you to run the same command on a series of nodes. In this article, we look at pdsh.

The fish shell provides many features that rival the well-known Bash. We examine some highlights.