Tagged: Bash

27 August 2026 Windows Linux Networking PowerShell Bash

Same Job, Different Shell Part 1: Reachability and Continuous Monitoring

ping and Test-Connection do the same job, but which PowerShell version you're on changes both the syntax and, in one tested case, what the tool actually reports. Part 1 of a series pairing Windows and Linux networking commands, with a real PS 5.1 vs 7.6 discrepancy found along the way.
27 August 2026 Windows Linux Networking PowerShell Bash

Same Job, Different Shell Part 11: The Complete Cheat Sheet

Every command pair from this series, reachability through packet capture, in one table, plus which PowerShell cmdlets actually change behavior between versions and which don't. The closing part of the Windows/Linux networking command comparison series.
17 August 2026 Linux Text Processing Bash

Text Processing for Network Engineers Part 5: cut, sort, uniq, tr, and the Rest of the Supporting Cast

grep, sed, and awk get all the attention, but the tools that glue them into a working pipeline are cut, sort, uniq, tr, column, and paste. Building a top-talkers report and a unique-source-IP list from a flow log using nothing but these.