One of the best ways to write scripts quickly and effectively is to never start from scratch.

Sending a Tivoli event from a Unix script involves the following steps: <probe_argument> is any qualifier associated with the event, such as the disk, network interface, etc. to which the event ...

When a question like “How can a bash script tell you where it’s located?” pops into your head, it seems like it ought to be a very easy question to answer. We’ve got commands like pwd, but ...

Unlike shell scripts on Unix systems, batch files are run by typing their names without their extensions. So to run a batch file named mapdrive.bat, you would type only “mapdrive”.

Shortcuts gets Unix power Shortcuts on the Mac also goes beyond what’s available on iOS and iPadOS by being able to hook directly into Unix scripting and shell support—with one big catch.

Anyone interested in scripting for maximum portability or ease of maintenance can learn a lot from this book. Everything needed to use the same script with Linux and all varieties of UNIX is present: ...

Really noobish question, but let's say I have a string(i.e. "Little Bo-Peep has lost \\n her sheep"). How or what characters (in case I'm way off as to it being something like "\\n") should I put ...

Tech Tech Industry Microsoft embraces open-source scripting language Company unveils first beta of IronPython, a .Net implementation of Python, in hopes of luring programmers to Windows.

In C#, the command line to a program is passed in as an array of strings. That’s easy to deal with, so long as your command line contains a list of identifiers. Many programs, however, use a ...

A windows solution is prefered since my desktop has much more power and more resources than my linux laptop, nevertheless maybe a linux/unix script would be needed to solve it.