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 ...

Whenever you have worked out the perfect logic in the script you’re preparing, do one more thing. Take a reusable snapshot of the logic you’ve written and tested and save it in a template for the next ...

Attaching a remote drive or directory on a Windows box is called “drive mapping” though the process is essentially the same as what we call mounting in the Unix world. While I rarely spend any ...

Hello,<BR><BR><BR>I am trying to learn shell scripting and am <BR>presently writing some simple scripts I want<BR>to write a script that will check each directory<BR>to see if a file of a certain name ...

ITworld.com – One of my newer users asked me just yesterday how he might record a login session in order to review the commands he entered and the output he generated at a later time. I pointed out ...

One particular frustration with the UNIX shell is the inability to easily schedule multiple, concurrent tasks that fully utilize CPU cores presented on modern systems. The example of focus in this ...