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 ...
How to use your Android phone to master Linux Bash scripts (instead of doomscrolling) ...
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 ...
This book excerpt is from chapter 1 of The Art of UNIX Programming by Eric S. Raymond, ISBN 0131429019, copyright 2004. All rights reserved. This part of chapter 1 ...
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 ...
If you ever need to write a binary file from a traditional language like C, it isn’t all that hard to do. About the worst thing you might have to deal with is attempts to fake line endings across ...
Although many Linux developers are only now discovering the combination of a scripting language and a graphical user interface (GUI) toolkit, this sort of development environment is not new. The ...