Discover the techniques that help popular scripts succeed.

It hurts to see your programs taken apart and their weaknesses exposed, but it will make you a better programmer.

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 ...

At times, we need to write shell scripts that are interactive and user executing them need to monitor the progress. For such requirements, we can implement a simple progress bar that gives an idea ...

Why do you want osascript to run a new shell with 'do shell script' when you are already in a shell script? You can simply let the current shell expand variables and execute commands (and as suggested ...