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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.
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21 Sep 2006 |
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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.
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27 May 2008 |
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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.
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20 Feb 2007 |
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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.
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12 Dec 2006 |
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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.
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05 Dec 2006 |
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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.
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07 Nov 2006 |
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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.
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10 Oct 2006 |
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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.
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26 Sep 2006 |
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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.
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10 Mar 2009 |
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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.
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01 Apr 2009 |
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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.
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07 Oct 2008 |
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Top ten AIX and UNIX articles and tutorials—August 2007
See what AIX(R) and UNIX(R) content your peers found most valuable.
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11 Sep 2007 |
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Top ten AIX and UNIX articles and tutorials—July 2007
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15 Jul 2007 |
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Top ten AIX and UNIX articles and tutorials—June 2007
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10 Jul 2007 |
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Top ten AIX and UNIX articles and tutorials—May 2007
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20 Jun 2007 |
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Top ten AIX and UNIX articles and tutorials—April 2007
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20 Jun 2007 |
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Top ten AIX and UNIX articles and tutorials -- March 2007
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26 Apr 2007 |
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Top ten AIX and UNIX articles and tutorials -- January 2007
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14 Mar 2007 |
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