One of the delights in Bash, zsh, or whichever shell tickles your fancy in your OSS distribution of choice, is the ease of which you can use scripts. These can be shell scripts, or use the Perl, ...

Bash scripts are powerful, but with power comes great responsibility. It’s very easy for sloppy or poorly-planned code to do real damage, so it’s a good idea to be careful and practice defensive ...

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Jason Snell recently explained how to use Applescript to automate the popular Twitter client Twitterific. But, with the help of some simple shell scripting, you can also send quick status updates ...

So, we have a shell script that starts james (the JAVA mail server). I was alerted to the fact that despite the script being the last line in rc.local, it wasn't starting on boot. So, I went to the ...

Hello All,<br><br>I am trying to write a script that will use a shell much the way that I do in MSDOS -- View image here: http://arstechnica.infopop.net/infopop ...

Semantics-driven static analysis could be used to improve the safety, correctness, and performance of Unix, Linux, and macOS shell scripts, researchers say. Semantics-driven static analysis is being ...

Whether you are a technology enthusiast or a professional looking to enhance your scripting skills, we have designed this Windows PowerShell scripting tutorial for beginners, especially for you. So, ...

Shell scripting is one of those skills that are absolutely invaluable on especially UNIX and BSD-based systems like the BSDs, the two zillion Linux distributions as well as MacOS. Yet not every shell ...

Basic ways you can use shell scripts to monitor password strength and secret accounts. The internet ain't what it used to be back in the old days. I remember being online back when it was known as ...