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An introduction to the most useful special and environment variables in Bash

If you're writing a Bash script, you will invariably need to pass values to it—aka arguments or positional parameters. Bash's ...
TechRepublic

11 PowerShell commands to use in managing Active Directory

Jesus Vigo covers how systems administrators leverage PowerShell cmdlets to manage Active Directory networks, including the devices and users it services. Microsoft’s PowerShell (PS) management ...
Linux Journal

DirB, Directory Bookmarks for Bash

Imagine browsing the Web and having to type the full Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) path each time you visit a Web page—painful. However, since 1993, when browser bookmarks were added to the Mosaic ...
Computerworld

Performing five common administrative tasks using Windows PowerShell

Sometimes it’s easiest to learn something new simply by using it, and to my mind PowerShell is no exception. Often we discover new capabilities and features in looking at what tasks other people are ...
Hackaday

shell scripting

Shell scripting is one of those skills that are absolutely invaluable on especially UNIX and BSD-based systems like the BSDs, the two zillion Linux distributions as well as MacOS. Yet not every shell ...