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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...