We often write quick bash scripts and judging by the comments, half of us use bash or a similar shell to pop out quick, useful scripts, and half of us think that’s an abomination, and you should only ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. It’s pretty easy to run a batch file on Windows. Just create a file, change the extension to ...

I have a bash script that needs to be able to mount/umount and write to a DVD burner. It all works when it is run as root, but even if I chmod u+s it and leave it owned as root, my other user cannot ...

BASH is a Unix shell and command language which can run Shell Script files. You do not need to install Ubuntu or any other Linux Distros unless your scripts need the ...

If you ever think about it, computers are exceedingly stupid. Even the most powerful CPU can’t do very much. However, it can do what it does very rapidly and repeatably. Computers are so fast, they ...

*** Not sure if this should be here or Linux forum ***<BR><BR>Hey,<BR><BR>I have a situation where I need to automate a soap call that is done using a java class. I have one script that sets all of ...

I love my workflow and never intended to do an extreme overhaul. All I needed was to fix a few workflow gaps, but it led me ...

Microsoft PowerShell and Linux Bash are two leading command-line interpreters in the market. Both CLIs are top-notch, but one will be better than the other in some respects. In this post, we will ...

If you use sudo you can automatically re-start scripts that need to be run as root by adding a check at the beginning of the script and executing sudo if the script ...