In this post, we look at scripting basics—at how to get started if you have never built a script before. Identifying the shell Unix and Linux systems today have a number of shells that you can use.

Everything needed to use the same script with Linux and all varieties of UNIX is present: Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX have one subsection each. The first chapter is a quick tutorial of shell ...

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 ...

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 ...

The odd thing is when I run rsync (from cygwin shell and from DOS prompt) and it begins to sync a file over, it flows at around 120Kbps (on a firewire connection), when a simple cp does it at ...