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 ...

You normally think of a critical section — that is, a piece of a program that excludes other programs from using a resource — as a pretty advanced technique. You certainly don’t often think of them as ...

The command-line interface (CLI) is the cornerstone of interacting with the Linux operating system. It allows users to enter commands directly, offering greater control and flexibility compared to ...

In my previous post, I showed you how to create a clickable button in Excel. That button displayed a simple message box. Now, I want to show you how to use the button to kick off a PowerShell script.

The ri command will now always run the version in /usr/bin, even if a version is later installed in the homebrew directory, or anywhere else. In effect, using a full absolute path in your alias breaks ...

We're going to build off my previous series to show how to further the communication channel between Excel and PowerShell. In a recent series of posts, I explained how to launch a PowerShell script ...

Since Solaris doesn't have GNU "date", Perl seems pretty much the only game in town, if I want to convert a static time stamp to the epoch time format. Given I'm not much of a Perl wizard, how do I ...

PowerShell scripts are used to automate repetitive tasks and make some changes to your system’s configuration. However, we have noticed that at times, Windows can’t run a PowerShell script in Windows ...

PowerShell scripts reduce the effort in running repetitive tasks. If you frequently execute scripts at pre-defined times or specified time intervals, you may want an efficient way of not having to ...