Windows shops transitioning to devops may not yet know the power of build pipelines when it comes to standing up and maintaing infrastructure. A concept familiar to software developers, the ...

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PowerShell is a scripting language and task automation framework that was released by Microsoft in late 2006. If you haven't run into or used PowerShell yet, you are missing out on a lot of power, ...

An automated nightly build is a process for building an application every night using an infrastructure that automatically executes the required steps at the scheduled time, without any human ...

Automox Inc., the maker of a cloud-native platform for managing Windows, macOS and Linux endpoint devices, is adding generative artificial intelligence capabilities that enable users to create ...

To avoid errors, it's important to write PowerShell scripts that prevent code from running on an unintended platform. Luckily, this is easier to do than it sounds. Up until a few years ago, PowerShell ...

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In this post I'll show you how to create a self extracting bash script to automate the installation of files on your system. This script requires coreutils (for cat, tail), awk, gzip, tar and bash.