You need to package up a bunch of files, send them somewhere, and do something with them at the destination. It isn’t an uncommon scenario. The obvious answer is to create an archive — a zip or tar ...

I've talked before about how I am a lazy shell script programmer. It might be because I'm simply not a full-time professional software developer, and I don't even administer my own servers anymore—I ...

*** Not sure if this should be here or Linux forum ***<BR><BR>Hey,<BR><BR>I have a situation where I need to automate a soap call that is done using a java class. I have one script that sets all of ...

Check if a file is really a file, whether a string contains anything, and whether you can run a program with these vital patterns.

I'm guessing that each of us uses the command line differently and seeks to accomplish different tasks. Mine are sometimes very specialized, like the script I wrote that lets me easily transform the ...

A script is just a collection of commands saved into a text file (using the special .ps1 extension) that PowerShell understands and executes in sequence to perform different actions. In this post, we ...