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Imagine that you want to output multiple lines of text in Bash, or any shell script. Maybe it’s for a help string for a particularly convoluted shell script you’re writing. You could have a separate ...

Ask the Scripting Guy is a semi-regular column in which we solve user problems using AppleScript. If you have a problem you think we might be able to help with, send me an email and I’ll consider it ...

There are many dialog programs out there, Zenity, Kdialog, xdialog, etc. I love programs like these. They make it so easy to spice up a shell script with a little GUI action. Today I'm going to go ...

NORTH COUNTYNORTH COUNTY — Barbara Morris mentioned receiving many Internet Explorer script error messages while Rosemary Buchan asked about avoiding several other ...

I received an interesting message from Angela Kahealani with a challenge: "Here's what I'd like to see in Work the Shell: a full-blown shell script template. It should comply with all standards ...