H ere's a secret you might not have known: you don't need advanced programming skills to write basic code, and learning how can make a massive difference in the way you use your computer. Anyone ...

I'm trying to use a "*" wildcard within a sh (bash) shell script to copy all libs from a directory into another directory:if [ -d "${PLIB_INST_LIB_DIR}" ] ...

In this post, we look at scripting basics—at how to get started if you have never built a script before. Identifying the shell. Unix and Linux systems today have a number of shells that you can use.

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 ...

One of the more complete online resources I found was an appendix to a bash-scripting guide, which started out with the following sentence "Localization is an undocumented Bash feature.". Well, at ...

In order to avoid this common mistake I often have my shell scripts prompt me for a yes or no answer before they proceed. The function described here is for doing that: asking a question and ...