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 ...

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 ...

Mac OS X provides rich scripting and automation tools that can simplify everyday tasks—if you know how to use them. The roster includes the venerable command line, the graphical Automator utility, and ...

I've tried Google, I've tried the search, and I can't find anything good on shell scripting in Windows NT/2000/XP. (Plenty on WSH scripting, but that's not what I want.)<BR><BR>I'm trying to set up a ...

ITworld.com – One of my newer users asked me just yesterday how he might record a login session in order to review the commands he entered and the output he generated at a later time. I pointed out ...