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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here at work we use an old SCO UNIX system for some of the day to day operations. To make my role as desktop support a little faster I was hoping to write a script that would kill all of the TTYs on ...

I recently found myself working at a company that uses Windows as the desktop environment. I was used to Linux, however, and wanted to have that on my desktop instead. Should you find yourself, for ...

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 ...