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 ...

Basic ways you can use shell scripts to monitor password strength and secret accounts. The internet ain't what it used to be back in the old days. I remember being online back when it was known as ...

Between every IT administrator and the end users they support lie miles and miles of code. Most IT administrators are familiar, to some degree, with shell scripting. For the small set of ...

This article is reprinted from the book A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming 3rd edition, with permission of the author and publisher ...

It is easy to dismiss bash — the typical Linux shell program — as just a command prompt that allows scripting. Bash, however, is a full-blown programming language. I wouldn’t presume to tell you that ...

I recently switched to Mac OS X as my primary desktop operating system after spending over a decade on Linux. Although Apple’s operating system supplies practically all of the command line tools I ...

Saving shell scripts as Mac applications You can save your completed AppleScript/shell script combos as applications (.apps) if you wish. To do this, simply type in your script and click File > Save ...

Microsoft Windows PowerShell is a command-line shell and scripting language with more than 130 standard command-line tools and consistent syntax and utilities. The new feature runs on Windows XP, ...