I really have too many tray icons. You know the ones. They sit on your taskbar, perhaps doing something in the background or, ...

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So I'm trying to make a script work. I haven't been programming scripts before, so I'm in the process of learning as I go.<BR><BR>What I try to do is a script that will run through the home catalog, ...

The first time I played with Zenity, I recognized several potential uses for it. While I'm pretty comfortable with interacting with computers with a command line interface, I know many people are not.

Jason Snell recently explained how to use Applescript to automate the popular Twitter client Twitterific. But, with the help of some simple shell scripting, you can also send quick status updates ...

The printf command offers well-defined behavior following the POSIX standard, which means it works the same way across shells ...

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 ...