Scripting is often seen as something only IT admins do to lengthen their coffee breaks, but home users can benefit from ...

In plain old make you use them the same way you use curly braces in shell scripts. If it is in a shell script, then the the parenthesis signify subshell evaluation.

PowerShell scripting doesn't have to haphazard. Here's how to tell PowerShell to build a script from the commands that you have already entered at the command line.

PowerShell can save you a lot of time on Windows admin tasks. Here's a crash course in Windows PowerShell scripting basics.

How to build Mac OS X services with Automator and shell scripting In this hands-on tutorial, Ars will show you how to use Automator to build … ...

With PowerShell commands, you can create, modify, and delete scheduled tasks on Windows 10. In this guide, I'll teach you how.

Bunco—a dice game that makes Yahtzee look complicated! HOW-TOs, Programming, Shell Scripting I haven't dug into any game programming for a while, so I thought it was high time to do something in that ...

Here are three pointers for finding and fixing any bugs in your PowerShell script, no matter how long it is.

Dungeons, Dragons and Dice—a script that lets you roll those 3d6 and 2d20 that a surprising number of games require. In my last article, I talked about a really simple shell script for a game called ...

If you receive error code 0xFFFD0000 while using the Task Scheduler to schedule running of a Powershell Script, then this post will help you fix the problem.