Welcome to From Strip to Script, where I take a page of finished comic art and try to derive a script from it, to see what I can learn from the exercise. Let's take a look at the following page from ...

I'm trying to use a "*" wildcard within a sh (bash) shell script to copy all libs from a directory into another directory:<pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">if [ -d ...

For many public radio reporters — even some of the most experienced ones — the prospect of a two-way can be daunting. You've been gathering facts and collecting tape, and now, you have to sit down in ...

Oh happy day! I got an e-mail from a reader with a shell script question that didn't appear to be homework from a programming class or anything to do with hacking passwords. The reader wrote: I am ...

i have a simple command:<BR><pre class="ip-ubbcode-code-pre">vzctl set $VEID --userpasswd root:$PASSWD</pre><BR>this works perfect on the cli, but the password isn't ...