Unix Utilities

/afs/cern.ch/user/j/jowett/public/math/Miscellaneous/LivingWithUnix.nb

contains some of my power tools for Unix.   It serves as an interface to the Unix systems in CERN. It gives examples of using Mathematica's system interface and provides additional special functions.  To my taste, this is much easier than typing weird commands like find into a Unix shell command line.

Brief contents follow, subject to change.

• Information about user, system and computer
• AFS authentication
• Which directories are using the most AFS disk space?
How to pick out files wasting space and delete them.
• Operations on an arbitrary set of files
• Batch jobs (LoadLeveller)
• Temporary disk space on this computer
• Utilities in my package JMJUtils`BumpEtc`
• What's in the package?
• Finding all the links in a directory
• Replace all occurrences of a string in a file
• Temporary stuff