Creating Your First Script Summary This chapter brings you up to speed on the technical basics of PowerShell and how to use it, with a focus on the new capabilities offered in PowerShell 2.0 CTP2.

Prof. Powershell To Write Better PowerShell Scripts, Let's Get Back to Basics Let me offer a few suggestions that will make your script writing easier, more productive and less buggy. By Jeffery Hicks ...

Our PowerShell guide for programming with loops breaks down the For loop and other types with expert-backed tips for making the most of these scripts.

Microsoft Windows' PowerShell tool is a powerful scripting and administration environment that's largely replaced the traditional Windows command line, which dates back to MS-DOS. You can start a ...

It’s easy enough to find out the basic execution sequence using strace after you run an executable shell script with said shebang in place.

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 ...

Back in 2008, I wrote a piece called PowerShell Tips and Tricks, which covered the then-relatively new Windows scripting language and some cool things you could do with it. Although PowerShell has ...

Another special variable that you might have encountered is the status variable, $?. In a script, this contains the return value of the most recently executed (external) command. This is where you ...

Every time we publish a Linux hack that uses a shell script, someone will chime in about how awful it is to program shell scripts. While we like the ubiquity and efficiency, we can’t disagree… ...

In this tutorial, I'm going to show you two of the ways that I use shell scripting in Automator services in order to simplify my work.