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

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 ...

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I writing this Ruby project, and during development there are three processes that I need to start up: the dev server, a CSS compiler, and a JS compiler. I'd like to just wrap all three up into one ...

The first time I played with Zenity, I recognized several potential uses for it. While I'm pretty comfortable with interacting with computers with a command line interface, I know many people are not.

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 ...