I've talked before about how I am a lazy shell script programmer. It might be because I'm simply not a full-time professional software developer, and I don't even administer my own servers anymore—I ...

Two of the best reasons for building shell scripts on Unix systems are 1) to repeat complex sets of instructions without having to rediscover or even retype the commands, and 2) to repeat complex sets ...

This article is reprinted from the book A Practical Guide to Linux Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming 3rd edition, with permission of the author and publisher ...

From time to time, I find myself needing to handle command-line arguments in Java either for Java-based applications or for main() function implementations that provide a simple testing mechanism ...

The Swish-e program is controlled by command line arguments (called switches). Often, it is run manually from a shell (command prompt), or from a program such as a CGI script that passes the command ...