Discover the top 4 lightweight, must-have Linux tools that streamline your setup process and make any distro feel like home.

The eval command allows you to run the contents of variables as commands and can be very useful, especially in scripts. There are probably a lot of Linux users who have never encountered the eval ...

There I was, trying to come up with a topic for this column, when I did what I usually do when stumped: I sent a question out to my Twitter followers. This time, I got a great answer, from John ...

This post follows up on Part 1 by examining the many ways that you can test the value of variables – e.g., whether they equal particular strings like “yes” or “no”, if they have a numeric value, if ...

I have a simple API running in Flask on a Raspberry Pi. The Pi has Debian (buster) installed. In the API, I am making calls to Twilio. I'm storing sensitive info like the auth token in environment ...

UPDATE, 9/25: The Bash vulnerability, now dubbed by some as "Shellshock," has been reportedly found in use by an active exploit against Web servers. Additionally, the initial patch for the ...

I realize this might throw a spanner into the editorial works here at Linux Journal, but after a two-month sidetrack on how to analyze letter usage in English to give you an edge in Hangman (yeah, I ...