Simply put, a Shell Script is a program that is run by a UNIX/Linux shell. It is a file that contains a series of commands which are executed sequentially as if they were entered on the command line ...

Check if a file is really a file, whether a string contains anything, and whether you can run a program with these vital patterns.

I am attempting to write a shell script to perform a move of files from one file structure to another. I am using qShell which is an IBM equivalent to Bourne, Korn, and C shell from what I understand ...

Oh happy day! I got an e-mail from a reader with a shell script question that didn't appear to be homework from a programming class or anything to do with hacking passwords. The reader wrote: I am ...

I’m going to go ahead and admit it: I really have too many tray icons. You know the ones. They sit on your taskbar, perhaps doing something in the background or, at least, giving you fingertip access ...

You need to package up a bunch of files, send them somewhere, and do something with them at the destination. It isn’t an uncommon scenario. The obvious answer is to create an archive — a zip or tar ...

Hey,<BR><BR>I've got a shell script that sends emails to a couple of different users. I've gotten a request to add a new user that has an apostrophe in their email address.<BR><BR>I've tried doing a ...