Command-line Perl scripts can make adminstering a UNIX box easier by replacing certain commands with some routine scripts. Find out how to take advantage of this approach. Perl is everywhere. Most ...

Use Unix Commands in Windows' Built-In Command Prompt. Kevin Purdy. February 29, 2008 Lifehacker reader Michael writes in with a nifty tip that was lurking in our comments all along, but ...

These commands can be as useful on the Windows command line (i.e., within the command prompt window) or within scripts (e.g., .bat files) as they are on Unix. To get cygwin, browse your way over ...

Shell basics. The Unix command line shell is roughly equivalent to the command window in Microsoft Windows (cmd or PowerShell). The commands we walk through below will work on any Unix-like system ...

Unix was developed as a command line interface in the early 1970s with a very rich command vocabulary. DOS followed more than a decade later for the IBM PC, and DOS commands migrated to Windows ...

After two and a half decades of working with Unix, I’ve seen a lot of change in my favorite OS and, at the same time, retained a number of favorite commands that continue to keep my job as a ...

Summing Up — If you worked through this brief demonstration, you successfully typed commands in a Terminal window using the Unix command line. You created a directory (folder), created a file, wrote ...

The command is similar to the Unix mount command. ... If you omit the username and password from your NET USE commands, the user will be prompted to enter this information when the batch file is run.

When one of only a handful of Windows servers that I manage dropped off my radar for a while, I wasn’t sure what to think. I had been running an application, for which this system was the server ...

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