Last month, we looked at signals, the rudimentary mechanism that processes on a Linux box can use to communicate events and state changes. We talked about how each of the signals can be sent manually ...

ITworld.com – Some of the worst-written scripts that I have encountered perform some action on behalf of the person running the script and then blithely continue on without ever checking whether the ...

Hey,<BR><BR>I've got a script that runs a program in a loop. The program writes a file, and the script extracts a value out of that file. If the value doesn't meet the criteria, the loop ...

How the true and false commands work, and how to put them to use on the command line and in scripts. True and false are common concepts in all forms of computing. They’re critical to Boolean logic ...