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 ...

Shell scripting is one of those skills that are absolutely invaluable on especially UNIX and BSD-based systems like the BSDs, the two zillion Linux distributions as well as MacOS. Yet not every shell ...

Bash shell scripting is a programming language to automate tasks and interact with the operating system in Unix/Linux. It allows users to write scripts that execute a series of commands, make ...

A shell is a special user program that provides an interface for the user to use operating system services. Shell accepts human-readable commands from users and converts them into something which the ...

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 ...

Hey all,<br>I'm working on some scripts to grade assignments for a UNIX class at my college. basicly what I'm trying to do is grep the student's .bash_history to make sure the students used certian ...

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