Autocomplete—found everywhere from text messaging apps to IDEs—can seem like a fairly modern innovation, but it’s been present in various forms of Unix since the early 80s, if not earlier. Linux ...

In addition to TextEdit and third-party text editors, you can use some convenient Terminal editors and commands to view the line numbers of a script file.

I have a script for Maya and Photoshop that I'm trying to make compatible for Windows users. Maya's MEL scripting lets you send system commands so I have a simple command line script for OS X that ...

I would have done it the 2nd way with VBScript rather than hack around with a command line script. If there is anything that needs looping, I default to VBScript.

The command line isn't just for wise Linux beards. It's actually an awesome tool with almost limitless functionality. Here's a primer on how it works, ...

I kick off SFTP scripts from the command line using a traditional batch file. For example, this is a listing of a batch file named deploy.bat — used to start the SFTP client with script file.