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UNIX tips: Productivity tips
Using UNIX(R) 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.
Articles 21 Sep 2006  
 
UNIX tips and tricks for a new user, Part 4: Some nifty shell tricks
When writing a shell program, you often come across some special situation that you'd like to handle automatically. This tutorial includes examples of such situations from small Bourne shell scripts. These situations include base conversion from one string to another (decimal to hex, hex to decimal, decimal to octal, and so on), reading the keyboard while in a piped loop, subshell execution, inline input, executing a command once for each file in a directory, and multiple ways to construct a continuous loop. Part 4 of this series wraps up with a collection of shell one-liners that perform useful functions.
Tutorials 20 Feb 2007  
 
UNIX tips: Learn 10 good UNIX usage habits
Adopt 10 good habits that improve your UNIX(R) command line productivity -- 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.
Articles 12 Dec 2006  
 
UNIX tips and tricks for a new user, Part 3: Introducing filters and regular expressions
Discover the power of UNIX(R) filters. In this tutorial, you'll learn about the grep family in depth, including the syntax of regular expressions in many UNIX utilities. You'll also find out more about the stream editor, sed, as well as examine the awk pattern scanning language through examples and explanations.
Tutorials 05 Dec 2006  
 
UNIX tips and tricks for a new user, Part 2: The vi text editor
The vi text editor might seem counterintuitive to new users but, make no mistake, there is a good reason this 30-year old tool is still widely used by many of the best developers in the world. The vi text editor separates operations into insert mode and command mode, which gives you ultrafast access to key commands that can edit, insert, and move text in on-the-fly, user-defined segments.
Tutorials 07 Nov 2006  
 
UNIX tips: Become a better blogger with UNIX
Did you know that blogging and UNIX(R) go hand in hand? The native Web and text-processing tools of UNIX enable you to create your blogs quickly and easily. Discover some handy tips for improving your UNIX blogging skills.
Articles 10 Oct 2006  
 
UNIX tips and tricks for a new user, Part 1: File maintenance tools
Systems administrators can use a number of programs to maintain files in a UNIX(R) system from the command line. In this tutorial, you'll experiment with commands, such as cd, cp, and tar, to navigate a UNIX file system from the command line and work with files and directories. The cd command changes directories, cp duplicates files or directories, and tar quickly groups files into an archive. You'll also learn how to deal with file permissions and perform simple input/output.
Tutorials 26 Sep 2006  
 
UNIX tips: Learn 10 more good UNIX usage habits
As a follow-up to Michael Stutz's excellent article, this article provides 10 more good habits to adopt that will improve your UNIX command-line efficiency. Learn about common errors and how to overcome them, and discover exactly why these 10 UNIX habits are worth picking up.
Articles 27 May 2008  
 
AIX tips for RHEL4 administrators
Are you broadening your skills as a Linux systems administrator into various flavors of UNIX? Have you found yourself in charge of IBM UNIX servers on short notice? Get a rundown of the differences and similarities between Red Hat Enterprise Linux and IBM AIX so that you can perform day-to-day activities with ease.
Articles 17 Nov 2009  
 
Tips on designing a preprocessor for C++ using Antlr
Learn how to use Antlr to create a C++ preprocessor. Using this approach to create the C++ compiler, you don't need a separate preprocessor engine. Instead, the preprocessor engine can be integrated as part of the lexer.
Articles 20 May 2008  
 
Dynamic LPAR tips and checklists for RMC authentication and authorization
This article provides dynamic LPAR tips for Resource Monitoring and Control (RMC) authentication and authorization. The author includes a checklist for DLPAR setup, and information about setting up the HMC/partitions hostname and network. The appendixes provide information gathered from the field about RMC/DLPAR.
Articles 10 Feb 2005  
 
Performance and tuning tips for AIX 5.1-03 (64-bit kernel) on a 16-way p670
This article describes how to analyze and tune AIX system performance. The author uses a benchmark case where I/O was the main focus. The exercise followed the classic AIX performance analysis methodology by eliminating all system bottlenecks, and achieved the goal of saturating a 16-way p670. The results of the exercise improved the application throughput by about 40%.
Articles 20 Nov 2003  
 
IBM AIX 4.3 installation tips
This document contains several tips for successful installation of AIX V4.3.
Articles 01 Jun 2001  
 
10 tips for sensible systems administration
Benjamin Franklin: scientist, scholar, statesman, and . . . systems administrator? Yes, 200 years or so before the birth of UNIX, Franklin scribed sage advice to keep systems humming. Here are 10 of Franklin's more notable tips.
Articles 10 Mar 2009  
 
Maximizing Java performance on AIX: Part 2: The need for speed
This 5-part series provides several tips and techniques that are commonly used for tuning Java(TM) applications for optimum performance on AIX(R). A discussion of the applicability of each tip is also provided. Using these tips, you should be able to quickly optimize the Java environment to suit your application's needs.
Articles 03 Nov 2007  
 
Remote kernel debugging in FreeBSD using serial communication
Explore how to remotely debug a FreeBSD kernel that is running on a target machine without affecting system performance. In this article, examine setting up the debug environment using serial communication port, compiling modified kernel code, debugging, and troubleshooting tips.
Articles 06 Mar 2007  
 
Maximizing Java Performance on AIX: Part 5: References and Conclusion
This is the conclusion of the 5-part series providing tips and techniques that are commonly used for tuning Java(TM) applications for optimum performance on AIX(R). We touch upon other interesting areas of Java performance tuning for AIX, look at a few case studies, and then end the series with a list of useful references.
Articles 17 May 2004  
 
Maximizing Java Performance on AIX: Part 4: What goes in
This 5-part series provides several tips and techniques that are commonly used for tuning Java(TM) applications for optimum performance on AIX(R). This article deals with situations where I/O or networks may become bottlenecks.
Articles 03 May 2004  
 
Maximizing Java performance on AIX: Part 3: More is better
This 5-part series provides several tips and techniques that are commonly used for tuning Java(TM) applications for optimum performance on AIX(R). A discussion of the applicability of each tip is also provided. Using these tips, you should be able to quickly optimize the Java environment to suit your application's needs.
Articles 10 Apr 2004  
 
Maximizing Java performance on AIX: Part 1: The basics
This 5-part series provides several tips and techniques that are commonly used for tuning Java(TM) applications for optimum performance on AIX(R). A discussion of the applicability of each tip is also provided. Using these tips, you should be able to quickly optimize the Java environment to suit your application's needs.
Articles 29 Mar 2004  
 
Install and configure a development Web server in UNIX
Get a detailed, step-by-step approach to installing and configuring a development or test Apache Tomcat server. Along the way, pick up helpful tips on how to build and administer your Web or application server in a UNIX environment.
Tutorials 15 Jul 2008  
 
AIX linking 102
Are you writing or porting applications to AIX(R)? Get a quick introduction to the most commonly used features of the linker and loader, plus practical tips and techniques. This short tutorial from AIX expert Gary Hook focuses primarily on the library search path.
Tutorials 12 Sep 2002  
 
AIX linking 101
Are you writing or porting applications to AIX(R)? Get a quick introduction to the most commonly used features of the linker and loader, plus practical tips and techniques. This short tutorial from AIX expert Gary Hook focuses primarily on the library search path.
Tutorials 12 Sep 2002  
 
10 steps to UNIX nirvana
Discover several time-saving tips and freely available tools that both new and experienced C++ developers can use.
Articles 03 Mar 2009  
 
Expand the capabilities of your Tomcat Web server
This tutorial is a must-have guide for any Web or application server administrator. Although the implementations are slightly different from Apache Tomcat and other Web servers, this tutorial breaks down in a logical and concise way many advanced administrative tasks necessary for successfully hosting, deploying, and managing multiple Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Web applications. Learn how to set up, configure, and secure your Tomcat server, and discover tips and tools for advanced deployment considerations.
Tutorials 16 Sep 2008  
 
Port Fortran applications
Discover how to port Fortran-based High Performance Computing applications, such as computational fluid dynamic (CFD) modeling, weather modeling, and linear algebra packages, using IBM XL compilers and gnu compilers on large clusters. The solutions in this article are equally applicable in all types of porting work in Fortran or any UNIX(R)- or Linux-based systems. Though C/C++ and other programming languages are popular, with strong features and widespread use, Fortran is still the favorite for the scientific and engineering community because of its performance.
Articles 01 Apr 2009  
 
Top ten AIX and UNIX articles and tutorials—May 2007
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20 Jun 2007  
 
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20 Jun 2007  
 
Top ten AIX and UNIX articles and tutorials -- March 2007
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26 Apr 2007  
 
Top ten AIX and UNIX articles and tutorials -- January 2007
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14 Mar 2007  
 
Top ten AIX and UNIX articles and tutorials—June 2007
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10 Jul 2007  
 
Using cron to automate maintenance
To leverage round-the-clock computing, tasks must run at all hours of the day. You could punctuate your sleep with waking interludes to log in and run this command or that command on dozens of machines, or you can enjoy your forty winks and turn the work over to the ubiquitous cron, a daemon, or perennial process, to execute commands on a schedule. From very often to every so often, cron happily minds the clock and runs jobs day or night. Learn how to configure and maintain cron, and discover just some of its many uses.
Tutorials 07 Oct 2008  
 
Top ten AIX and UNIX articles and tutorials—August 2007
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11 Sep 2007  
 
Top ten AIX and UNIX articles and tutorials—July 2007
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15 Jul 2007  
 
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