Igor Delovski Board

[XNote]

Apple Developer Connection: Mac OS X Shell Scripting

"Shell scripts are a fundamental part of the Mac OS X programming
environment. As a ubiquitous feature of UNIX-based, Linux, and UNIX-like
operating systems, they represent a way of writing certain types of
command-line tools in a way that works on a fairly broad spectrum of
computing platforms."

[XNote]

Digg: Automate windows tasks with this simple scripting language

"AutoIt v3 is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for
automating the Windows GUI and general scripting. It uses a combination
of simulated keystrokes, mouse movement and window/control
manipulation in order to automate tasks in a way not possible or reliable
with other languages."

[delovski]

JoS: Learning Shell Scripting

"I would like to learn how to write UNIX shell scripts, but I would like to do
so under some sort of emulator under Windows. I currently have Cygwin but
cannot get it to run my 'hello world' script. Does it execute shell scripts? If so,
how?"

[delovski]

Digg: Introduction to Open Source Scripting on Mac OS X

"If you're new to the world of open source scripting languages —or just want
to brush up on what's unique about Mac OS X—this article will help you get
oriented. Mac OS X bundles the most popular scripting languages out of the
box: perl, Python, php, tcl, Ruby—not to mention shells such as bash, ksh,
zsh, and csh."

[delovski]

dartmouth.edu - Macintosh Scripting Systems

"Discussion of the various scripting systems for Apple Macintosh computers
including Userland's Frontier, Apple's AppleScript, and any others. Users
are encouraged to share any technical information and interesting scripts they
have and post technical questions. Postings from America Online CompuServe,
and AppleLink will be gatewayed to this list. This list is unmoderated."

[delovski]

uf - How can I start ./app in the current directory when make did ok?

"Gedit has the Ctrl+f8 shortcut to automatically invoke make. I added
another command "Build and run", which performs the same as "Build",
but at the end when make finishes successful, tries to start ./app. How
would look the code for that?"

[Ike]

reddit - Bash users: What do you have for your $PS1?

"Mine's horribly complicated and includes..."

[delovski]

Beginning SSH on Ubuntu

"SSH is a powerful tool which allows secure remote login over insecure net-
works. It provides an encrypted terminal session with strong authentication
of both the server and client using public-key cryptography. This tutorial will
cover the basics of SSH’s most useful features..."

[Ike]

CW - The A-Z of Programming Languages: Bourne shell, or sh

"An in-depth interview with Steve Bourne, creator of the Bourne shell, or sh.

Through this work, and a series of connections and circumstance, Bourne got
to know people at Bell Labs who then offered him a job in the Unix group in
1975. It was during this time Bourne developed sh."

[delovski]

Command-Line-Fu

"Command-Line-Fu is the place to record those command-line gems that
you return to again and again. All commands can be commented on and
discussed - digg-esque voting is also encouraged so the best float to the
top."

[delovski]

MF - Bash script to zip multiple directories?

"I need to put together a bash script that will read in a text file containing a
list of directories (one per line) and for each line output a separate archive."

[Ike]

cyberciti.biz - Howto: Linux Rename Multiple Files At a Shell Prompt

"Rename command syntax

rename oldname newname *.files
For example rename all *.bak file as *.txt, enter:
$ rename .bak .txt *.bak

Renaming multiple files at a shell prompt is always considered as a black art
by many UNIX gurus."