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Hello All,<br><br>I am trying to write a script that will use a shell much the way that I do in MSDOS -- View image here: http://arstechnica.infopop.net/infopop ...

However, even though i specify no password on the command, the script does not wait for a user input and just carries on regardless and errors out. What would be a better, generic way of doing this ...

I've only noticed two minor oddities on my iMac since upgrading to Mac OS 10.4.3. First, my Spotlight hotkey combination has been switched back from F1 to the default Command-space bar (I had been ...

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 ...

#!/bin/bash clear echo "Hello world!" The first line tells the operating system what shell to use to interpret the script and the location of the shell. Double quotes do not prevent Bash from ...

Basic ways you can use shell scripts to monitor password strength and secret accounts. The internet ain't what it used to be back in the old days. I remember being online back when it was known as ...