One particular frustration with the UNIX shell is the inability to easily schedule multiple, concurrent tasks that fully utilize CPU cores presented on modern systems. The example of focus in this ...

When a question like “How can a bash script tell you where it’s located?” pops into your head, it seems like it ought to be a very easy question to answer. We’ve got commands like pwd, but … pwd tells ...

Sending a Tivoli event from a Unix script involves the following steps: <probe_argument> is any qualifier associated with the event, such as the disk, network interface, etc. to which the event ...

ITworld.com – One of my newer users asked me just yesterday how he might record a login session in order to review the commands he entered and the output he generated at a later time. I pointed out ...