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An introduction to the most useful special and environment variables in Bash

If you're writing a Bash script, you will invariably need to pass values to it—aka arguments or positional parameters. Bash's ...
Linux Journal

DirB, Directory Bookmarks for Bash

Imagine browsing the Web and having to type the full Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) path each time you visit a Web page—painful. However, since 1993, when browser bookmarks were added to the Mosaic ...
Redmond Magazine

Launching a PowerShell Script from Excel, Revisited

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 ...
TechRepublic

PowerShell tutorial: The basics of PowerShell scripting

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 ...