Batch files, though far less sophisticated than their Unix shell script counterparts, nonetheless have many of the important features that I have become accustomed to working with on my Unix systems.

A lot of information is available about individual files on a Unix system. For example, the ls -l command will display the permissions matrix and ls -i will display a file’s inode. But, if we ...

The following example shows the successful import of the transport file to native format on the UNIX target host and a verification of the method that was used for creating the transport file on the ...

Each example file in this folder is a complete and validated config.gateway.json file. However, if you wish to combine one or more example files (or add to your existing config.gateway.json file), I ...

The EOL (End Of Line) character in DOS is '\r\n' The EOL (End Of Line) character in UNIX is '\n' Editing UNIX files on Windows changes the EOL from UNIX to DOS, which might make the UNIX build tools ...

Make sure that the person running the script supplies the archive file’s name; Make sure the specified archive actually exists, and; Select the appropriate extraction command and arguments for ...

Shell Scripts or .SH files are like batch files of Windows which can be executed in Linux or Unix. It is possible to run .sh or Shell Script files in Windows 11 or Windows 10 using Windows ...

In this post I'll show you how to create a self extracting bash script to automate the installation of files on your system. This script requires coreutils (for cat, tail), awk, gzip, tar and bash.