Tag Archives: POSIX

Chet Ramey Issue #4, August 1994 Conclusion of an article started last month. While originally written by Brian Fox of the Free Software Foundation, bash is now maintained by Chet Ramey. In this article, Chet explains the history of shells and then goes on to explore features specific to bash. History Access to the list of commands previously entered (the ...

Chet Ramey Issue #3, June-July 1994 While originally written by Brian Fox of the Free Software Foundation, bash is now maintained by Chet Ramey. In this article, Chet explains the nhistory of shells and then goes on to explore features specific to bash. Bash is the shell, or command language interpreter, that will appear in the GNU operating system. The ...

Michael K. Johnson Issue #1, March 1994 In this initial column, I’ll explore porting programs from other Un*x versions to Linux. Porting Un*x applications to Linux is best done, as a general rule, by porting the application to some standard which Linux follows. This way, not only will Linux users benefit from your port, but so will users of other ...