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

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.

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.

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 ...

However, you can easily create a shell script that contains a file — even an archive of many files — and then retrieve the file and act on it at run time.

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 ...