I use simple bash scripts to automate the boring stuff in Linux. Here's what they are and how they work.

It works a little too well to mess around.

The Linux yes command allows you to automate responses to scripts and commands, but how it responds is up to you. One of the more unusual Linux commands is named “yes”. It’s a very simple tool ...

PowerShell scripting doesn't have to haphazard. Here's how to tell PowerShell to build a script from the commands that you have already entered at the command line. Even though I've worked extensively ...

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How a Python and Netmiko utility turned repetitive health checks across 200 network devices into a parallel, logged, ...

Solutions provider takeaway: This chapter excerpt offers information on PowerShell commands, uses, features, enhancements and command types in Windows Server 2008 R2. PowerShell can help solutions ...

A shell script is a text file that contains a sequence of commands for a Unix-based operating system (OS). It's called a shell script because it combines a sequence of commands in a file that would ...

"I want to reduce my daily data entry tasks.""It's a hassle to repeat the same calculations over and over.""I want to automate my spreadsheet work."Google Apps Script, commonly known as "GAS," is ...