The University Research Computing Facility (URCF) is pleased to announce our Summer 2025 workshop series. The URCF provides support for computational research at Drexel. These workshops are open to ...

With the rapid growth of cloud computing, Linux and other Unix-based operating systems have become increasingly popular, largely because they are open source (www.redhat.com, n.d.). To fully leverage ...

Shell scripting is a method of writing programs (scripts) that are interpreted and executed by a shell, a command-line interface that interacts with the operating system’s kernel. The guy in the image ...

Few aspects of Unix system administration are more intimate than the relationship between the admin and their chosen shell. After all, the shell is the most fundamental interface to the system, the ...

Shell scripting is one of those skills that are absolutely invaluable on especially UNIX and BSD-based systems like the BSDs, the two zillion Linux distributions as well as MacOS. Yet not every shell ...