Shell scripts enable every level of system administration and user interaction on Unix and Linux systems. Several system administration tasks can be automated with shell scripts. Disaster recovery ...

Compare one-off docker run commands with repeatable Compose configuration for single-container and multi-container applications. Compare Git stash, reset, and clean to revert tracked files, clear ...

I have a pretty simple shell script to delete old logs from a directory, there are about 64 thousand files in the directory. If I execute it by hand from the CLI it works, but invoked thru a crontab ...

This chapter excerpt on Linux Administration (download PDF) is taken from the book The Accidental Administrator: Linux Server Step-by-Step Configuration Guide. Among the topics covered in this book ...