Broken links can wreak havoc in directory structures. This article shows you how to use scripts to avoid having your links lead to a dead end.

Shell scripts are often written for simplicity rather than efficiency. A closer look at the processes can lead to easy optimization.

At a party with 23 guests, having two guests with the same birthday in more than 50 percent of cases may sound fairly unlikely to amateur mathematicians. Armed with statistical methods, party animal Mike Schilli sets out to prove this claim.