Attaching a remote drive or directory on a Windows box is called “drive mapping” though the process is essentially the same as what we call mounting in the Unix world. While I rarely spend any ...

Whenever you have worked out the perfect logic in the script you’re preparing, do one more thing. Take a reusable snapshot of the logic you’ve written and tested and save it in a template for the next ...

Most mixed Windows and Unix environments present some difficulties. Many administrators keep one Windows and one Unix PC on their crowded desks (or maybe some use a dual-boot computer with Linux and ...

Clearly, other vital information concerning a script can be displayed using a series of echo commands — all related to where we are when we run the script and how we call it. If we run a script like ...

Administering two platforms is tough. Microsoft Services for Unix 2.0 provides a practical set of tools for making sure Windows and Unix users get along—and that your job gets easier. The rapid growth ...

Any fair-sized enterprise has both Unix and Windows systems in it. The rise of internet protocols like HTTP has given us a basis for some level of universal interoperability, but many users need more ...

In C#, the command line to a program is passed in as an array of strings. That’s easy to deal with, so long as your command line contains a list of identifiers. Many programs, however, use a syntax of ...