After testing the waters for years, Microsoft has launched its first service, Azure Cloud Switch, that's based on Linux. PowerShell Core is built on the .NET Framework. It's a task-based command-line ...

Xonsh, now in development, provides a shell that combines the Python language with features of Bash Unix and the fish and zsh shells. Pronounced “conch,” the tool works with Linux, Windows, and Mac OS ...

Three years after releasing PowerShell Core for Linux and macOS, Microsoft has announced PowerShell 7, the newest version of PowerShell Core. Only in March, Microsoft released PowerShell Core 6.2 but ...

Amazon Web Services and VMware as Microsoft launch partners? You read it right. As part of its move toward more openness, Microsoft today said its popular and powerful PowerShell command-line ...

No one who isn't lazy writes scripts. Scripts save valuable system administrator time. In this article, I introduce the Sleep scripting language, which is a Perl-inspired language built on the Java ...

I need to somehow build a file index of various driectories on a Unix system that will run via crontab each night. Does anyone have or know of an existing script in Perl or other shell language that ...