The new series on Bash is partially complete. I estimate it’s about half done. The remaining portions will still take a few more weeks. I got the easy stuff done first. I basically copied existing articles and made some content changes as well as some organizational changes that work better for this site.
You can access it from the drop-down menus above under DataBook for Linux Administrators. You can also find the first page of this series here.
I’m currently at the very beginning of the process of adding a new series on Bash. When finished this series will include basic Bash usage, how to do command line programming, how to create reusable programs, and using Bash for system administration.
There’s not much there right now but it will grow with more articles over the next few weeks. You can access it from the drop-down menus above under DataBook for Linux Administrators. You can also find the first page of this series here.
Although there has always been a posted date on all of the posts in this WordPress theme, the pages did not have a date on them. Thus it was not possible to know how old or recent a particular page was.
I’ve installed a WordPress plugin that displays the last modified date on all pages. This will make it easier for you to determine how recent a page is.
Just remember that most of the old pages are still correct and usable. I have deleted most of the ones that were no longer valid or useful. I will continue to weed out any ones remaining that are no longer useful.
You’ve probably noticed that I haven’t done much on this site in the last few years. As a result much of the technical information here is out of date at best.
Over the coming weeks – and possibly months – I plan to weed out all that can’t be saved and, because there is still some good information here and I intend to keep that, bringing it up to date where necessary. I will also add plenty of new content.
I have already deleted well over 100 old and now pretty much irrelevant posts from the home page. There are almost 400 existing pages to work my way through so be patient. I am also looking for a new theme for this site so you may notice some temporary changes in the looks of this site as I try out different ones.
Remember, this is my technical website and http://www.both.org is my personal author’s website. If you are looking for information about my books and articles you should go there.
Thanks for your patience as I work through this process.
I am really happy to get a great 5-star first review on my Linux self-study series, Using and Administering Linux – Zero to SysAdmin. Among other things, the reviewer says, “…these 3 books are a superb new resource for newbies, experienced users, and ‘front-line’ SysAdmins.” The full review.
Here is a link to another article at InfoWorld that I really enjoyed. It is a couple years old but the content is timeless in the Unix and Linux worlds.
Here is a link to an article in InfoWorld about the early days of Unix. These are reminiscences from some of the developers of Unix. I found it very interesting and perhaps you will, too.
This article that I co-authored with Bruce Garland, a colleague at Cisco Systems, made #9 in the Linux Magazine Top Ten Best System Administration Articles list for 2008.