Using SETI@Home as an example, Remo Del Bello shares this tip for creating scripts that can be saved and launched from the OS X Finder. Although SETI@Home is the basis for this example, this can work ...

I wish I'd known these time-saving tweaks and tricks from the start.

PowerShell's scripting language and ability to interact directly with Windows system elements give it a superpower that ...

Few aspects of Unix system administration are more intimate than the relationship between the admin and their chosen shell. After all, the shell is the most fundamental interface to the system, the ...

One of the most universal experiences of any Linux or Unix user is working through a guide or handbook and coming across an almost unbelievably complex line of code meant to be executed with a shell.

To change a password in Linux through a Bash script, he two scripts that are most important are 'Create Users' and 'Change Passwords Shell' scripts, for the system admin which regularly uses the mail ...

August 10, 2010 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Whether you do a lot of work in the Terminal or you just don't feel like opening iTunes and searching through ...

The Bash Terminal shell in OS X (or other Unix-like systems, for that matter) contains a history feature that can be quite useful. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac user for the past ...