It hurts to see your programs taken apart and their weaknesses exposed, but it will make you a better programmer.

Simply put, a Shell Script is a program that is run by a UNIX/Linux shell. It is a file that contains a series of commands which are executed sequentially as if they were entered on the command line ...

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 ...

I've been doing the UNIX systems thing (Solaris, HP-UX and Linux) for a while now but the one thing that I still sometimes get lost on is shell scripting. Now let me start with the usual disclaimer ...

The first software that I was actually paid to develop was a 2-page shell script that prompted the user for a dozen or so pieces of information, before launching a set of cooperating processes. Those ...

Shell scripting on MS platforms, 2000, 2003.<BR><BR>There's no VBS, Perl, nor anything else involved. Just basic shell scripting.<BR><BR>So I'd like to be able to send output to a file while still ...