One of the delights in Bash, zsh, or whichever shell tickles your fancy in your OSS distribution of choice, is the ease of which you can use scripts. These can be shell scripts, or use the Perl, ...

hey all, I need to set up a shell script that ssh's into a remote server then runs some commands. I have minimal control over the remote server, and only slightly more control over the server the ...

Sound eXchange, or SoX, the “Swiss Army knife of audio manipulation” has been around for as long as the Linux kernel, and in case you’re not familiar with it, is a command line tool to play, record, ...

Every wizened Unix hacker will have his or her own special tool set for using the command line for dev-fu. Here are mine The shell is your friend. But many developers don’t really know the shell, the ...

However, even though i specify no password on the command, the script does not wait for a user input and just carries on regardless and errors out. What would be a better, generic way of doing this ...

I know, there are a million shell scripts waiting to be written to help administer your computer, run your server and fine-tune your back end, but I'm obsessed with scripts that interact with on-line ...

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 ...