All kinds of things can go wrong with your shell scripts, but they don't have to. Let's look a some debugging tips that can help ensure your scripts run the way you intend. The first step in debugging ...

Attaching a remote drive or directory on a Windows box is called “drive mapping” though the process is essentially the same as what we call mounting in the Unix world. While I rarely spend any ...

Give your scripts understandable names and they'll be easier to find and easier to use. I often start my scripts by calling them "tryme" until they've been proven to work pretty well. Then I give them ...

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 ...

Collection of Bash scripts designed to enhance system administration and user management tasks on Unix-like systems. These scripts aim to automate various aspects of system monitoring, user behavior ...

This project is a comprehensive Linux Shell Scripting Toolkit designed to demonstrate system administration, automation, and environment customization using Bash. The project focuses on user and group ...

Most mixed Windows and Unix environments present some difficulties. Many administrators keep one Windows and one Unix PC on their crowded desks (or maybe some use a dual-boot computer with Linux and ...