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 ...

I've talked before about how I am a lazy shell script programmer. It might be because I'm simply not a full-time professional software developer, and I don't even administer my own servers anymore—I ...

I have a situation where I need to automate a soap call that is done using a java class. I have one script that sets all of the required classpaths and path. This allows me from the command line to ...

When writing PowerShell scripts, in a perfect world, we'd all just use cmdlets and functions. After all, the batch file days are behind us! Unfortunately, that's not always possible or even the best ...

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 ...