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’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 ...

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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 ...

Administrators are typically burdened with tons of tasks, many of which are repetitive. One of the best ways to automate such tasks is to use scripting. Here's a look at how scripting can help ...

I'm passing a file to my script and then I need to get into a for loop until all the lines are read and manipulated, but what was the simple syntax for reading each line of the inputed file? (assuming ...