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'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 ...

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 ...

After the beginners guide, the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide is a good read however be warned that some information and examples found there, such as the first couple in the /dev section, might be OS ...

Computerworld is undertaking a series of investigations into the most widely-used programming languages. Previously we have spoken to Alfred v. Aho of , S. Tucker Taft on the , Microsoft about its ...

The University Research Computing Facility (URCF) is pleased to announce our Summer 2025 workshop series. The URCF provides support for computational research at Drexel. These workshops are open to ...

An associative array is an array which uses strings as indices instead of integers. To see how associative arrays work, we’re going to look at both the Korn shell and Perl, though only the newest ...

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 ...