bash Idioms

About the Authors

Carl Albing is a professor, researcher, and software engineer with a breadth of industry experience. A coauthor of O’Reilly’s bash Cookbook and Cybersecurity Ops with bash, as well as the author of O’Reilly’s “Great bash” video, Carl has worked in software (using bash and many other languages) for companies large and small, across a variety of industries. He has a BA in mathematics, a master’s in international management (MIM), and a PhD in computer science.

JP Vossen has been working with computers since the early 80s and has been in the IT industry since the early 90s, specializing in information security since the late 90s. He’s been fascinated with scripting and automation since he first understood what an autoexec.bat was, and was delighted to discover the power and flexibility of bash and GNU on Linux in the mid-90s. He has previously written for Information Security Magazine and SearchSecurity, among other publications. On those few occasions when he’s not in front of a computer, he is usually taking something apart, putting something together, or both.