I use simple bash scripts to automate the boring stuff in Linux. Here's what they are and how they work.

PowerShell is an object-oriented automation engine and scripting language with an interactive command-line shell that Microsoft developed to help IT professionals configure systems and automate ...

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 ...

The script command not only makes a record of what commands you run but also allows you to save the output generated so that you can examine it later or easily turn your command sequences into scripts ...

Command script files are written as a sequence of commands, one command per line. The commands are executed one after the other, the execution of the next command being started when the answer to the ...

FFmpeg was designed as a cross-platform solution for video and audio recording, conversion, and streaming. Its About page describes the command-line tool as “the leading multimedia framework, able to ...

Looping in PowerShell enables IT admins to repeat tasks automatically without repeating code. With several looping options, you can choose to either loop through each item of an array or to loop until ...

If you've been relying on WMIC for managing Windows 11 PCs, Microsoft's latest updates are bad news for you. But it's not the ...