I have several scripts that all do different things to files in a particular folder. Recently the path of the folder changed and I had to modify each of the scripts to reflect this. I would like to ...

A handful of useful productivity tools wrapped up in a simple shell script.

I am trying to learn PowerShell (using V3) and have a need to create a script that will copy a folder structure with logging. Originally I made a small script calling robocopy and that worked quite ...

It's hard to write a bash script of much import without using a pipe or two. Named pipes, on the other hand, are much rarer. Like un-named/anonymous pipes, named pipes provide a form of IPC ...

Last month, we spent a lot of time digging around in the Apache log files to see how you can use basic Linux commands to ascertain some basic statistics about your Web site. You'll recall that even ...

Learn how to leverage configuration files to customize PowerShell scripts, including language, formatting and display settings, in this conclusion to a three-part series. In the previous article in ...