It isn’t an uncommon scenario. The obvious answer is to create an archive — a zip or tar file, maybe — and include a shell script that you have to tell the user to run after unpacking.

In the past few weeks, I realized I needed another fairly specialized script for file renaming, but this time ... and notice the built-in shell notation of $(( )) for mathematical calculations.

Batch files, though far less sophisticated than their Unix shell script counterparts, nonetheless have many of the important features that I have become accustomed to working with on my Unix systems.

Here’s how it works. A script is a collection of instructions written to a text file (using the ".ps1" extension) that PowerShell understands and executes in sequence to run different actions.

missing2': No such file or directory You see an error; obviously, it didn't work. Ah, but behind the scenes, a numeric “return code” variable has been set in the shell too, something you can test and ...

Semantics-driven static analysis could be used to improve the safety, correctness, and performance of Unix, Linux, and macOS shell scripts ... modifying system files, and rendering entire systems ...