If you're not yet comfortable with writing scripts on Unix and Linux systems, this post might get you off to a healthy start.

I'm looking for info on using "if" with errorlevels but I may be using the wrong term because I keep coming up with nt shell scripting info.So here is what I want to do...I want to run "ls" on an ...

Shell scripts are not compiled — at least, not typically — so the shell only reads what it needs to do the work. That means if your script is careful to exit, you can add as much “garbage ...

Is there a language similar to BASIC that I can use for general-purpose programming tasks under Linux? I know that shell scripting is much more powerful than MS batch files, but the syntax seems ...

Of special note is the unobtrusive shttpclient. This allows us to use the HTTP API from internal shell scripts, which we needed for PTZ control. It also could be used in many other ways, of ...

Learning a basic scripting language can elevate your PC skills.