PowerShell can save you a lot of time on Windows admin tasks, but to use it effectively you need to understand how it works. Here's a crash course in Windows PowerShell scripting basics to get you ...

In this post, we look at scripting basics—at how to get started if you have never built a script before. Identifying the shell. Unix and Linux systems today have a number of shells that you can use.

To learn PowerShell scripting quickly, understand command-line interface basics and common cmdlets. It’s useful to have a grasp of scripting fundamentals and Windows administration.

You can write a basic script that performs the backup for you. For another example, let's say you're monitoring the stock of a product (the Nintendo Switch 2, maybe?).

In the last installment of this article, we looked at building a basic development environment and took the first steps to learn about scripting for Virtual Server 2005 R2. We explored how to ...

So my programming skills are rudimentary at best. I have a basic but somewhat rusty (it's been about 3 years) working knowledge of C and C++.I'm doing some work that I would like to automate ...

Using RH7.0, I've set up a bash script called 'dlist' which is just an 'ls' with the '-s and -h' switches appended. This gives you your normal ls output ...