Using variables, loops, and functions, users can create powerful scripts to streamline repetitive tasks, manage system configurations, and improve system automation efficiency. The course elaborates ...

Everything needed to use the same script with Linux and all varieties of UNIX is present: Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX have one subsection each. The first chapter is a quick tutorial of shell ...

Simply put, a Shell Script is a program that is run by a UNIX/Linux shell. It is a file that contains a series of commands which are executed sequentially as if they were entered on the command line ...

This points to a fundamental difference in the way that associative arrays are implemented in the two scripting languages. In Perl, every other array element is actually the index value.

These arrays employ numeric values — 1, 2, 3 and so on — as their indices. Since most scripting and programming languages start indexed arrays with element 0, we have done so in the examples ...