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 ...

Skip one-click backup apps. This rsync script gives you full control over what gets saved and when, plus logs and a few hard-won lessons.

The printf command offers well-defined behavior following the POSIX standard, which means it works the same way across shells and systems. Where echo often fails with escape sequences, printf handles ...

All kinds of things can go wrong with your shell scripts, but they don't have to. Let's look a some debugging tips that can help ensure your scripts run the way you intend. The first step in debugging ...

Don't expose your system with sloppy scripts! Although a Linux desktop or server is less susceptible to viruses and malware than a typical Windows device, there isn't a device on the internet that isn ...

I really have too many tray icons. You know the ones. They sit on your taskbar, perhaps doing something in the background or, ...

Jack Wallen shows how you can create a Linux shell script that requires a password without having to save a password within the script. Image: dennizn/Adobe Stock ...

Sending a Tivoli event from a Unix script involves the following steps: <probe_argument> is any qualifier associated with the event, such as the disk, network interface, etc. to which the event ...

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 ...