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Overview
Introduction to UNIX
Why use Unix?
Basic Unix Commands
An Intro to vi editor
Best Unix To Learn For Beginner

Unix Tech Tips for DBA
awk one-liner Tips
Stream - Oriented Editor One-liner Tips
Program Performance Optimization
Sun Solaris Command Tips
Intro to UNIX Shells
Undertanding File Permissions on a Unix-Based Server
How To Mirror Raid5
Ways of System Logging and Auditing

Disk
RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive/Independent Disks)
Adding a secondary disk to Sun system
How To Create Unformatted Partition
Replacing a Rootdisk That Is Failing

Programming
What is a semaphore?
What is a thread?
How do I perform arithmetic on floating point numbers?

Digital UNIX Tru64
Account Manager locked by another user
Digital UNIX to print to an ip-address, socket number?
Startup scripts configuration parameters
Shutting down and rebooting a Digital server

Files
Script To Continue To The Next File
Sorting Files in Different Directories
Deleting Files On List Of Folders
Search Many Files and Print
Finding Out The Last Modified Time For Files
Unix Commands for Finding Files
Show Difference Between Two Files
Displaying Tabs In A File
Check and Repair Filesystem with fsck
To Make Sure All Names Are Lowercase
Gzip More Than One File and Deleting First Line
Redirecting Output To File
Writing File Moving Script
Check For Zero Byte File Script
Change Last Modified Accessed Time
How To Write A Makefile

Directory
About Directories
Copy an Existing Directory Structure
Check If the Directory Folder Is Empty
Create Directory Structures

Unix Exercise
Managing Your Own Files and Directories
Printing Command To Be Used
Man Command To Find The Man Page
Using The ps And top Commands

Servers
Clusterit To Manage Multiple Servers
Resize A Konsole Window

Memory
Kmalloc And Malloc Memory Allocation

Password
Increasing The Password Length
Modify Etc Password File
Rlogin To Unix Without Password
How To Improve Unix Password Security

Users
Unix Command To Find All Users

HP-UX
HP UX Startup Script

SCO
SCO Unix Root Password
SCO Performance Monitoring
Shutting down and rebooting a SCO server
Show hardware specifications on a SCO server

AWK
Printing with awk Utility

Differences
Difference Between SC And LOM

Unix Scripts
Write a Script That Monitors The Used Diskspace
How To Make A Start And Stop Script
Reading from Keyboard Shell Script
Rename a File If It Exceeds 1 MB In Size
Not Found Message In Script Execution
Invoking Shell Scripts
Shell Variables
The Shell Script Language
How to use Perl in a Shell Script
Escape Characters in File Named
Script Before AIX Lock User Account
Starting a Timer To Count a Period
To Display The Shell Type
Redirections Of Shell Input And Output
Shell Script For Deleting Files
Wrapper Scripts And Its Uses

Questions on Unix
Frequently Asked Questions
Unix Questions and Answers
Short Questions with Answers
Important Questions and Answers for Unix
Commonly Asked Questions
Sample Questions
Braindumps Questions and Answers

Job Interview Questions
Unix Administrator Career Path
Interview Questions with Answers
Technical Interview - Preparation Questions
Network Administrator - Job Interview Questions
Job Questions Asked During My Interview
Shell Scripting Interview Questions
Administration Interview Questions
System Admin Interview Questions
Commands Interview Questions And Answers

Knowledge Testing
Self Test Questions for Understanding Unix
Self Testing Knowledge
Short Self-Test Questions on Unix

Sendmail
Specify Subject Line With Sendmail

File Transfer Protocol
How To Login Automatically To Ftp
 

Useful Commands 
Getting Help In Unix
Running Kernel and System Information
Load,  Statistics, Messages and Users
Frequently used Command
Wild Card and Print a file Commands
For Processes Commands
Using The Tail Command
Sed Command Using Variables
Basic Administration Commands - Basic Objects
The Sniff Commands
The File Compression Commands
File Analysing Commands

 Tips and Tricks
Breaking a String into Four Different Numbers
Finding a String
Printing String Backward
Scripting String Parsing
Assigning UNIX commands to Function Keys
A FIND and GREP Combination
AWK Quick Columns
How to use if/else logic in sed/awk
Alternative to CP
Automatic Exit after PL/SQL Script
BASH Hotkeys
Unix Redirection and Pipes
Changing PERMS Recursively
Change/Check your Term Type Quick
Check if the web server is running without a browser
Check System Kernel Variables
Checking your RAM (Solaris)
CHOWN and Solaris
UNIX Commands Cheat Sheet
Cleaning Directories
Configure Network Card Capability
Configure the System to Boot a 32-Bit Kernel
UNIX Permissions
Find and Edit Command in One
Find the Hog
Find the Speed of a Network Card
vi Search Across Carriage Return
Dump to a File
Edit all the Files
Copy Entire FileSystems
Replace Data in a File
Gzip Many Logfiles in One Time
Zipping Files Recursively
Ftp / Get Command Usage
corrupt/etc/system, Unable to Boot
Counting Files or Directories
C Shell Command Recall
crontab Core Removals
Display all Files except some
Cut Huge Log Files in Half
Unix Date Processing
Deleting Blank Lines Using AWK
Disable the CDE Front Panel
Disable Unused Daemons
Extract Last Field
File Systems Limitation 2 GB or Physical Disk Size
How to specify colors in unix?
How does a kill Process Work?
FUSER instead of  PS for PID
IP Forwarding using IPtables
Unix FAQ
Review The History And The Commands
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