QA & Testing

In the past I have written scripts which required a lot of data. I could have the script read a second file with all the data in it but occa...

Someone was having trouble writing a shell script. A common activity for Bourne shell scripting is to take the output from various commands ...

If you are familiar with UNIX, you are familiar with pipes. For example, I can do: ps -ef | sort | more The ps command will output a list ...

Someone recently asked me how to select a range of text from a log file. Because it was a log file, each line started with the date and time...

When most people start programming Bourne shell scripts they are VERY small. If you take over someone else's work or you have been prog...