Get to know Bash
If you are a Linux administrator, scripting can make your life easier by allowing you to automate routine tasks, customize jobs, and connect different utilities. This article looks at Bash, the default command shell on most Linux distributions.

Beginner's Guide to SSI (server side includes)
An easy to follow guide on SSI and how to use this feature to do handy tasks such as include the contents of an external file, display the current server date or time, get the user's IP address and more.

Tutorial: The best tips & tricks for bash, explained
The bash shell is just amazing. There are so many tasks that can be simplified using its handy features. This tutorial tells about some of those features, explains what exactly they do and learns you how to use them.

Ten Neat Tricks With Perl
Automate redundant repetitive tasks with Perl, using these ten neat tricks!

Access DB2 for Linux with Python
Python is a great tool to use with DB2 Version 8. It combines the ability to quickly and simply access a DB2 database with the power to perform more complex tasks that require a general-purpose programming language. You'll learn about the Python DB2 module using the sample that ships with DB2 Version 8.1.

LPI Exam Training: Administrative Tasks
Prepare for your Linux certification or build fundamental skills on Linux systems administration. In this sixth installment from a series of nine tutorials on exam 102 topics, you will know how to manage users and groups set user profiles and environments, use log files, schedule jobs, back up your data, and maintain the system time.

Using GNU Text Utilities
UNIX/Linux developers have tagged the utilities in this tutorial as the go-to choice for general text-processing tasks. This tutorial shows you how to use the GNU text utilities collection to process log files, documentation, structured text databases, and other textual sources of data or content.

The Unix Shell - Part II
At first glance many people think the Unix Shell is a more cryptic version of the MS-Windows/DOS command prompt. However, the Unix shell can do much more than launch programs and copy files. Sequences of commands can be strung together in "Shell Scripts" to automate tedious or repetitive tasks.

Unix Tips and Tricks: Nifty Shell Tricks
The objective of this tutorial is to show new users how to use and implement many of the shell's methods for providing automation at various levels. It demonstrates these methods by giving tricks and tips for special situations, and it also presents a rundown of useful shell one-liners for common tasks.

Open Source Python for System Administrators
Adopt Python to manage UNIX systems while incorporating concepts of good program design. Python is an easy-to-learn, open source scripting language that lets system administrators do their job more quickly. It can also make tasks more fun.

Download Rational Team Concert
Visit IBM developerWorks to download a free trial version of IBM Rational Team Concert, a member of the Rational Team Concert family of products built on the Jazz Technology Platform. Jazz is a scalable, extensible team collaboration platform for seamlessly integrating tasks across the software lifecycle.