Some up-front attention to your scripts might give them a longer life span and save you some work in the long run. Read more of Sandra Henry-Stocker 's Unix as a Second Language blog and follow the ...

Collection of Bash scripts designed to enhance system administration and user management tasks on Unix-like systems. These scripts aim to automate various aspects of system monitoring, user behavior ...

If you use Windows today and type ls, cat, grep, or awk in a terminal, there is a good chance something useful will happen. That was not always true. For most of the history of personal computing, ...

Wicked Cool Shell Scripts: 101 Scripts for Linux, OS X, and Unix Systems by Dave Taylor and Brandon Perry, 2 nd edition, no starch press (2017) is a book that can lift you up a notch in the super Unix ...

This project is a comprehensive Linux Shell Scripting Toolkit designed to demonstrate system administration, automation, and environment customization using Bash. The project focuses on user and group ...

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 ...

Unix Shell Script naming and coding standards and best practices Writing clean, maintainable Unix shell scripts can make the difference between a one-time hack and a reliable automation tool. This ...

SQL>SELECT t.owner, t.table_nameFROM all_tables tWHERE t.owner NOT IN ('SYS','SYSTEM')AND NOT EXISTS ( SELECT 1 FROM all_constraints c WHERE c.owner = t.owner AND c.table_name = t.table_name AND ...

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 ...

Developer Andy Szybalski has released Shellsilver 1.0, a Mac OS X tool that lets you execute UNIX shell scripts directly from the Finder. You execute the scripts by double-clicking on them. When a ...