Creating a script on a Unix or Linux system can be dead easy or surprisingly complex; it all depends on how much you’re trying to get the script to do. In this post, we look at scripting basics ...

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 ...

Unlike shell scripts on Unix systems, batch files are run by typing their names without their extensions. So to run a batch file named mapdrive.bat, you would type only “mapdrive”.

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Step-by-step shell script execution Follow these steps to create and run a shell script of your own from your Ubuntu home directory: Create a directory to store your shell script Create a file in your ...

Everything needed to use the same script with Linux and all varieties of UNIX is present: Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX have one subsection each. The first chapter is a quick tutorial of shell ...

Defining an event class Every event must have an class name that identifies it to the Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC). By convention, we will use unix_<program name> for the events sent by programs or ...

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