Script Doctor While bash scripting is often maligned and not without reason, it is very flexible and powerful, as this example shows.

This exhaustive Windows PowerShell tutorial is perfect for beginners who want to learn how to script in a quick and easy manner. Take a look!

It is easy to dismiss bash — the typical Linux shell program — as just a command prompt that allows scripting. Bash, however, is a full-blown programming language. I wouldn’t pres… ...

Figure 6. PowerShell acts on the value that was stored in the spreadsheet. In the interest of keeping things simple, I used a PowerShell script that simply displayed data in a message box.

In a real scenario, this could be anything like downloading files, creating backup, validating user input, etc. Also, to give an example we are assuming only four steps in our script below which is ...

PowerShell functions act as small, reusable building blocks of code that streamline your workflow and make your scripts more efficient. We’ll explain more about PowerShell functions and share basic ...

Yes, now with Bash Shell in Windows 11 and Windows 10, you can now create and run Bash shell scripts and incorporate Bash commands into a Windows batch file or PowerShell script.

As you can see, converting a PowerShell script into an EXE file is a simple process. Even so, there are a couple of things that you need to know before you try this out on your own.

In plain old make you use them the same way you use curly braces in shell scripts. If it is in a shell script, then the the parenthesis signify subshell evaluation.