Adopt 10 good habits that improve your UNIX command line efficiency --
and break away from bad usage patterns in the process. This article takes you
step-by-step through several good, but too often neglected, techniques for
command-line operations. Learn about common errors and how to overcome them,
so you can learn exactly why these UNIX habits are worth picking up.
Take a quick look at some essential editing one-liners that can save you time
and effort. Text-editing operations are normally done interactively, inside a
text editor application. Some tasks, however, can be accomplished quickly and
easily, right from the UNIX command line. What's more, these one-liners
can be used in scripts to automate various editing procedures.
Discover how shell scripts can mechanize virtually any personal or system
task. Scripts can monitor, archive, update, report, upload, and download.
Indeed, no job is too small or too great for a script. Here's an introduction.
This free tool gives you a huge amount of information all on one screen. Even
though IBM doesn't officially support the tool and you must use it at your own
risk, you can get a wealth of performance statistics. Why use five or six
tools when one free tool can give you everything you need?
Do you ever feel you wish you could answer some of your own questions when
you work with AIX and your System p™ server? Do you ever feel you
could save time by not having to call on the support professionals all the
time? Well, wish no more. Shiv Dutta discusses some of the AIX commands that
answer those questions and tells you how to enlarge the list of such answers.
Examine the life cycle of a process so that you can relate what you see
happening on your system to what's going on within the kernel. System
administrators must know how processes are created and destroyed within the
UNIX environment in order to understand how the system fits together and how
to manage misbehaving processes. Similarly, developers must understand the
UNIX processes model in order to write solid applications that run unattended
and won't cause problems for system administrators.
Searching for an easy way to create high-quality graphs that you can print,
publish to the Web, or cut and paste into performance reports? Look no
further. The nmon_analyser tool takes files produced by the NMON performance
tool, turns them into Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, and automatically produces
these graphs.
Examine key parts of the Z shell (zsh) and how to use it's features to ease
your UNIX system administration tasks. zsh is a popular alternative to the
original Bourne and Korn shells. It provides an impressive range of additional
functionality, including improvements for completing different commands,
files, and paths automatically, and for binding keys to functions and
operations.
Using UNIX in a day-to-day office setting doesn't have to be clumsy. Learn
some of the many ways, both simple and complex, to use the power of the UNIX
shell and available system tools to greatly increase your productivity in the
office.
Get an overview of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol- (LDAP) related
enhancements in the AIX 5L™ operating system V5.3 TL5 update. Some of the
enhancements include support for Active Directory, multiple base distinguished
(DN) support, and extended base DN format.
