This may come handy while writing cross-platform scripts.
If you don’t want to commit to the idiosyncrasies of a specific shell running on a particular platform, try the Squirrel Shell. The Squirrel Shell provides an advanced, object-oriented scripting language that works equally well on UNIX, Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows systems. Write a script once, and run it anywhere.
Squirrel is a high level imperative/OO programming language, designed to be a light-weight scripting language that fits in the size, memory bandwidth, and real-time requirements of applications like video games.
=> Speaking UNIX: The Squirrel portable shell and scripting language
Use ‘cvlc’ to use vlc without interface. This is useful for command line playing or ripping using shell scripts.
A quick way to fix shell post / pre execution scripts package problem under Debian / Ubuntu Linux.
If you would like to copy a set of files for all existing users, use the following scripting trick. It will save lots of manual work.
First you need to grab all user names from /etc/passwd file using cut comand:
cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd
Next use shell for loop command to apply copy and set the correct permissions [...]
I’ve directory called /home/vivek/scripts/daily with over 25 perl / shell / python scripts for managing daily tasks. One day for some weird reason my crond died and I did not noticed the incident for 2 days.
Now crond is started and I’d like to run all those scripts. Here is a quick for loop running all [...]
Generally I use Perl and Shell script for automation or to make system administration easier for me. Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language that combines remarkable power with very clear syntax. Python runs on Windows, Linux/Unix, Mac OS X, OS/2, Amiga, Palm Handhelds, and Nokia mobile phones.
You can easily adopt [...]
