If you often find yourself writing scripts from scratch when you know you wrote something similar not all that long ago, maybe it’s time to make your scripts a bit more reusable. The usefulness of an ...

So, I deleted the heavy applications, threw out the complex systems, and returned to the fundamentals: plain text files, a ...

Wicked Cool Shell Scripts: 101 Scripts for Linux, OS X, and Unix Systems by Dave Taylor and Brandon Perry, 2 nd edition, no starch press (2017) is a book that can lift you up a notch in the super Unix ...

Imagine that you want to output multiple lines of text in Bash, or any shell script. Maybe it’s for a help string for a particularly convoluted shell script you’re writing. You could have a separate ...

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 ...

PowerShell has made it dead simple to automate all kinds of things. However, its simplicity can be deceiving. PowerShell takes the complexity out of script writing but unless you're writing a ...