Simply put, a Shell Script is a program that is run by a UNIX/Linux shell. It is a file that contains a series of commands which are executed sequentially as if they were entered on the command line ...

PowerShell is a scripting language and an automation and configuration management framework built on the Microsoft .NET Framework. PowerShell is installed by default on Windows Server 2016 and Windows ...

Ever since Microsoft announced that PowerShell would be made open source, I have been really curious about what it would be like to run PowerShell on a Linux machine. Would it be like managing a ...

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 ...

The Windows Subsystem for Linux is bridging the divide between Windows and Linux by letting you run Windows 10 programs directly within a Linux shell. One of the strengths of the Windows Subsystem for ...

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