Batch files, though far less sophisticated than their Unix shell script counterparts, nonetheless have many of the important features that I have become accustomed to working with on my Unix systems.

This script contains any actions that you'd wish to be performed on the installation system, make directories, uncompress files, run system commands, etc. For the example I will create a directory and ...

The mkdir -p command, which creates a directory structure by creating all the directories along the requested path that don't already exist, has a partner in rmdir -p that removes all the ...

In this how-to, we’ll look at various ways of using the find command to help us find files and directories across the Linux filesystem. Sometimes we misplace a file or directory and we can spend ...