Exiting a script and logging out are very different, but sometimes you may need to log out of your Linux system from within a script. Here's how to do it.

This means that two scripts possibly could both believe they've locked the file—something called a race condition in computer science theory, and something that is obviously not a good thing. Anyway, ...

BBC writersroom's Development Producer, Paul Ashton announces details of the new Script Room system for submitting unsolicited scripts to the BBC.

Writersroom will soon be launching a fantastic new, improved, more efficient, more effective script system. Full details will be announced when our website is relaunched in early March 2012.

Bash scripting is every Linux administrator's Swiss Army knife. Learn how using a for-loop in conjunction with Bash scripts can produce powerful results.

A new unofficial app has been created that helps bypass system requirements and Microsoft Account creation, among others, during Windows 11 install.

The problem is, the python script can only see them when I run the script manually from the shell (so I know that the code is correct). When it starts from the rc.local file, it can't see the ...