In this post, we look at scripting basics—at how to get started if you have never built a script before. Identifying the shell Unix and Linux systems today have a number of shells that you can use.

You should take a second look at shell scripting. Bash or ksh (not csh) syntax is close to basic.<BR>"if then else", "while do done", "=" to mean both set to and test equiv should all look familiar.

Basic ways you can use shell scripts to monitor password strength and secret accounts. The internet ain't what it used to be back in the old days. I remember being online back when it was known as ...

Shell scripting is one of those skills that are absolutely invaluable on especially UNIX and BSD-based systems like the BSDs, the two zillion Linux distributions as well as MacOS.

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 ...