Using SETI@Home as an example, Remo Del Bello shares this tip for creating scripts that can be saved and launched from the OS X Finder. Although SETI@Home is the basis for this example, this can work ...

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

How to create a bash script for starting VirtualBox VMs Your email has been sent Jack Wallen shows you a nifty trick for easily starting, stopping, pausing, and resuming your VirtualBox virtual ...

This month, I thought it would be interesting to take a bit of a detour from my usual multi-month programming projects and instead focus on a specific topic that is of great importance to people ...

PowerShell has come a long way from its early days as a Windows-only automation tool. With the advent of PowerShell 7 and its cross-platform capabilities, IT professionals are being asked to do more ...

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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 ...