My most common use of Groovy is for writing scripts. As such, I enjoy its characteristics that enable an improved script development experience, but I also notice features of Groovy that are less than ...

Skip one-click backup apps. This rsync script gives you full control over what gets saved and when, plus logs and a few hard-won lessons.

Variables are just about the most ubiquitous element inside any PowerShell script. Variables can easily be created and referenced inside your script. But sometimes you just need to test to see if they ...

FFmpeg was designed as a cross-platform solution for video and audio recording, conversion, and streaming. Its About page describes the command-line tool as “the leading multimedia framework, able to ...

I'm getting closer to a solution, but there are gaps in my knowledge and experience that I'm having some difficulty bridging. Here's the scenario: A public school district I work with has a Windows ...

This post follows up on Part 1 by examining the many ways that you can test the value of variables – e.g., whether they equal particular strings like “yes” or “no”, if they have a numeric value, if ...

src_dir=`dirname "$0"` # first we figure out where we are, but... old_dir=`pwd`; cd "$src_dir" # ...since src_dir may be a relative path, src_dir=`pwd`; cd "$old_dir ...