Shell scripting is a lot more powerful than many people realize. With the right commands, shell scripting can automate many ...

What you’ll learn: The basics of interacting with computers using the Unix shell (a.k.a. the command line), which is a foundational skill for all other technical computing. You’ll learn how to ...

The most arcane shell commands and options are explained with plenty of examples. “Here” documents, a way to feed input to a script or command within the script itself, are explained thoroughly.

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

Addresses manipulating and maintaining files within the UNIX file system; creating and editing text files using the vi and ed editors; using pipes, redirection, and filters; using advanced text ...

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”.

Although this book is the second edition of this title, the former edition was published quite a while ago, 20 years to be exact. Quite a bit in UNIX programming has changed since then. The book ...