This chapter excerpt on Linux Administration (download PDF) is taken from the book The Accidental Administrator: Linux Server Step-by-Step Configuration Guide. Among the topics covered in this book ...

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 ...

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 ...

A shell script is a text file that contains a sequence of commands for a Unix-based operating system (OS). It's called a shell script because it combines a sequence of commands in a file that would ...

I wrote a small Unix shell in C.How are commands like `ls` and `cat`, which we use casually in the terminal, actually ...

GUIs are great—we wouldn’t want to live without them. But if you’re a Mac or Linux user and you want to get the most out of your operating system (and your keystrokes), you owe it to yourself to get ...

What’s the difference between programming and scripting anyway? There are a billion variations of this question posted across the internet and the answer is not always as simple as it might seem. The ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: Discover how to solve real-world system administration problems with this collection of end to end shell scripts. Takes you step by step through the process of writing shell scripts ...