I started watching the dot net show a while back, and I downloaded a few episodes particularly to look at the future of Windows as a platform. There was quite a bit of stuff about the likes of Avalon, ...

When I decided to give PHP a closer look, I wondered if PHP was a browser-only technology or if it could be used for command line scripting. It turns out that one can write operating system level ...

Here are some basic skills to get started with bash, one of the best shells for preparing and using scripts on Linux. Scripting in Linux–putting commands into a file so you can run them as a group—is ...

Microsoft has always taken it on the chin when it comes to command-line power. After all, Windows' strength is supposed to be its graphical user interface, not a bunch of cryptic command-line tools.

Colin Walters of Red Hat chaired a FOSSCamp session about Hotwire, a unique and innovative graphical shell environment designed to improve the command-line user experience. I've been testing Hotwire ...

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 ...

I have a script for Maya and Photoshop that I'm trying to make compatible for Windows users. Maya's MEL scripting lets you send system commands so I have a simple command line script for OS X that ...

In this article, we cover three of them – PowerShell, Command Prompt, and Windows Terminal — explaining how they differ from each other and when they should be used. The operating system of your ...

Windows 11 and Windows 10 ships with Windows PowerShell out of the box. Along with it, came the Command Prompt which was a successor to MS-DOS Command line. Often the presence of two command-line ...