If you're not yet comfortable with writing scripts on Unix and Linux systems, this post might get you off to a healthy start.

Unlike shell scripts on Unix systems, batch files are run by typing their names without their extensions. So to run a batch file named mapdrive.bat, you would type only “mapdrive”.

One of the best ways to write scripts quickly and effectively is to never start from scratch.

Anyone interested in scripting for maximum portability or ease of maintenance can learn a lot from this book. Everything needed to use the same script with Linux and all varieties of UNIX is present: ...

It's not hard to create and run a shell script in Linux distros like Ubuntu, but there are a few non-obvious pitfalls you need to avoid. Here's a quick example of how to execute a script in Linux.

Sending a Tivoli event from a Unix script involves the following steps: <probe_argument> is any qualifier associated with the event, such as the disk, network interface, etc. to which the event ...

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 ...

Microsoft's support for Python could help the software giant attract Unix developers to the Windows platform, as it is a commonly used scripting language on the Unix platform, according to Salim ...

Use a combination of AppleScript and a short Unix script to take a screenshot and then immediately view the results.

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