If you're not yet comfortable with writing scripts on Unix and Linux systems, this post might get you off to a healthy start.

So, what’s Shell scripting? Shell Scripting is defined as an open-source program that’s run by Linux or Unix shell. Through shell scripting, you can write commands to be executed by the shell. Lengthy ...

To see how associative arrays work, we’re going to look at both the Korn shell and Perl, though only the newest version of the Korn shell (referred to as “korn93”) supports associative arrays.