The first software that I was actually paid to develop was a 2-page shell script that prompted the user for a dozen or so pieces of information, before launching a set of cooperating processes. Those ...

Computers are great at automating repetitive tasks, right? But many of us encoding professionals spend a great deal of time repeating the same actions again and again. We point-and-click to set the ...

Back in 2008, I wrote a piece called PowerShell Tips and Tricks, which covered the then-relatively new Windows scripting language and some cool things you could do with it. Although PowerShell has ...

FFmpeg was designed as a cross-platform solution for video and audio recording, conversion, and streaming. Its About page describes the command-line tool as “the leading multimedia framework, able to ...

A script is just a collection of commands saved into a text file (using the special .ps1 extension) that PowerShell understands and executes in sequence to perform different actions. In this post, we ...