If you're not yet comfortable with writing scripts on Unix and Linux systems, this post might get you off to a healthy start.

Anyone interested in scripting for maximum portability or ease of maintenance can learn a lot from this book. Everything needed to use the same script with Linux and all varieties of UNIX is present: ...

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 ...

It's not hard to create and run a shell script in Linux distros like Ubuntu, but there are a few non-obvious pitfalls you need to avoid. Here's a quick example of how to execute a script in Linux.

Autocomplete—found everywhere from text messaging apps to IDEs—can seem like a fairly modern innovation, but it’s been present in various forms of Unix since the early 80s, if not earlier. Linux ...

When a question like “How can a bash script tell you where it’s located?” pops into your head, it seems like it ought to be a very easy question to answer. We’ve got commands like pwd, but ...

Tech Tech Industry Microsoft embraces open-source scripting language Company unveils first beta of IronPython, a .Net implementation of Python, in hopes of luring programmers to Windows.

Shortcuts gets Unix power Shortcuts on the Mac also goes beyond what’s available on iOS and iPadOS by being able to hook directly into Unix scripting and shell support—with one big catch.