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 ...

The Unix script command is a very basic tool for recording a login session or a portion of a login session. Begun with the command “script”, the command optionally includes another two arguments. If ...

Few aspects of Unix system administration are more intimate than the relationship between the admin and their chosen shell. After all, the shell is the most fundamental interface to the system, the ...

Clearly, other vital information concerning a script can be displayed using a series of echo commands — all related to where we are when we run the script and how we call it. If we run a script like ...

A lot of information is available about individual files on a Unix system. For example, the ls -l command will display the permissions matrix and ls -i will display a file’s inode. But, if we want to ...