Whether you do a lot of work in the Terminal or you just don't feel like opening iTunes and searching through your library, reader CamJN's fplay script will get you listening to music in seconds. The ...

It is easy to dismiss bash — the typical Linux shell program — as just a command prompt that allows scripting. Bash, however, is a full-blown programming language. I wouldn’t presume to tell you that ...

If you run into problems building, testing or running complex bash scripts, don’t lose heart. There are many ways you can help ensure that your scripts will work flawlessly. In this post, we’ll ...

Do you have some apps that you want to keep running all the time? If so, and if you're not afraid of the Terminal or the command line, I have a script for you. When I come home at the end of the day, ...

However, I need it to be conditional on if /blah isn't mounted. It needs to test if blah is mounted ro or rw, and if it isn't the way I want, remount it. So I figured I'd embed the logic into the ssh ...

I have a bash script I run through wsl that (amongst other things) sends an e-mail notification to myself whenever certain events occur. Until recently, I was invoking a powershell script (from the ...

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 ...

You normally think of a critical section — that is, a piece of a program that excludes other programs from using a resource — as a pretty advanced technique. You certainly don’t often think of them as ...

If you use ALSA for sound on your system the functions contained in the script presented here can be used to get and set the volume on your system. You might use this if you had a monitoring script ...

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 ...