Recently, I have been hard at work, creating some really complex PowerShell scripts related to a few projects that I have been working on. One of the big lessons that I have learned through all of ...

In my previous article in this series, I explained that you can make your PowerShell scripts far more flexible and dynamic by leveraging a configuration file as opposed to hard coding all of the ...

Here are some basic skills to get started with bash, one of the best shells for preparing and using scripts on Linux. Scripting in Linux–putting commands into a file so you can run them as a group—is ...

Let’s be honest— Microsoft Excel is a powerhouse, but it can also feel like a time sink. Whether you’re formatting endless tables, sorting mountains of data, or generating the same reports over and ...

The script command not only makes a record of what commands you run but also allows you to save the output generated so that you can examine it later or easily turn your command sequences into scripts ...

Communicating with a manipulator is challenging at best; most highly skilled manipulators see communication as simply a means to an end, to achieve what they want from someone else. Communication ...