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

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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 ...

Dungeons, Dragons and Dice—a script that lets you roll those 3d6 and 2d20 that a surprising number of games require. In my last article, I talked about a really simple shell script for a game called ...

The printf command offers well-defined behavior following the POSIX standard, which means it works the same way across shells ...

So I'm trying to make a script work. I haven't been programming scripts before, so I'm in the process of learning as I go.<BR><BR>What I try to do is a script that will run through the home catalog, ...

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 ...

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 ...