Okie dokey. I spent about 3 days recently writing a script which kills orphaned FTP processes using Perl. Here were my requirements. - Must kill orphaned FTP processes - Must use the company's ...

The second line of the above set of codes shows the response from the script. These were some simple shell scripts. You can write advanced scripts containing loops, functions, and conditional ...

Here are some basic skills to get started with bash, one of the best shells for preparing and using scripts on Linux. Scripting in Linux–putting commands into a file so you can run them as a ...

Unlike shell scripts on Unix systems, batch files are run by typing their names without their extensions. So to run a batch file named mapdrive.bat, you would type only “mapdrive”.

It has arrays, loops, sockets, regular expression matching, file I/O, and lots more. However, there are a few things you should know when writing scripts that you expect to work well.

I often profess that Linux can be used without the command line, but at some point, you might want to learn it anyway. When you do, consider these commands.

Phishing emails with RAR archives exploit Linux filename injection to deliver VShell backdoor, bypassing antivirus defenses ...

I'm a newbie trying to write a SysV init script for ipfm in RedHat 9. Looking at all the RedHat-installed scripts for services such as httpd and sshd, it ...

David Howells put in quite a bit of work on a script, ./scripts/syscall-manage.pl, to simplify the entire process of changing the system call tables. With this script, it was a simple matter to add, ...