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 ...

If you have every used the Command Line, or CMD, interface in Windows, you probably have some idea of the powerful things it can do. Creating your own CMD scripts, you can do even more, but faster. A ...

A script is just a collection of commands saved into a text file (using the special .ps1 extension) that PowerShell understands and executes in sequence to perform different actions. In this post, we ...

In this post I'll show you how to create a self extracting bash script to automate the installation of files on your system. This script requires coreutils (for cat, tail), awk, gzip, tar and bash.

Do your users like to tinker with scripts? Keep yours out of harm's way by using Microsoft's Script Encoder. Greg Shultz shows you how to use the Encoder for basic script protection. If you’ve been ...

When you log in to the computer, if you see a message box with an error message saying Can not find script file in Windows 11 and Windows 10, then this post may be ...

I have been tasked at my new job for finding a way to monitor server space on our many servers, originally I thought of something like Spiceworks, but the lead programmer/admin for this wants ...

The LOG statement issues the enquoted message in the log file or in the LOG window of the local SAS session. Although it is not necessary to include LOG statements in your script file, the LOG ...