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 ...

When you type commands in the terminal, that’s **standard input**. When you run the command, the results typically go to **standard output**. This input/output model allows you to chain commands ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. When you run your own executable command or shell script on Linux, you must prepend ./ to the ...

Command-line Perl scripts can make adminstering a UNIX box easier by replacing certain commands with some routine scripts. Find out how to take advantage of this approach. Perl is everywhere. Most ...

The purpose of this repository is to showcase implementations of Unix commands and OS-related utilities developed as part of college practical assignments. These programs illustrate concepts like file ...

Clearly, other vital information concerning a script can be displayed using a series of echo commands — all related to where we are when we run the script and how we call it. If we run a script like ...

In Unix, the normal way to record (log) an interactive shell session is with the Unix 'script' command (what the user types is underlined): Every byte that is sent to the screen is recorded in the log ...

One of the commands that I miss most from Linux when working in Windows/DOS environments is the split command. This extremely handy command allows one to split a large file into multiple smaller files ...