If you're not yet comfortable with writing scripts on Unix and Linux systems, this post might get you off to a healthy start. Creating a script on a Unix or Linux system can be dead easy or ...

This Wiley Publishing tome is big (more than 650 pages), useful and very complete. Be warned, however, that its scope is limited to system administration. The purpose of the book is to solve “real ...

The shell does far more than run commands. Here’s how Bash expands your input behind the scenes so you can write cleaner, ...

The script command not only makes a record of what commands you run but also allows you to save the output generated so that you can examine it later or easily turn your command sequences into scripts ...

Hello everyone, some of you may have heard that I am working on a file and folder batch processing program. I am still in the early development stages with X Fizzion, and I have some ...