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Repetitive tasks are ripe for automation. It is common for developers and system administrators to automate routine tasks like health checks and file backups with shell scripts. However, as those tasks become more complex, shell scripts may become harder to maintain. Fortunately, we can use Python instead of shell scripts...
Sajjad Heydari
Using a terminal can be a bit of an intimidating experience in the beginning - but after you get used to it, it can boost your productivity in ways you couldn't imagine and can become quite a pleasurable experience. That's probably the most addicting part of using the terminal daily....
Dimitrije Stamenic
In this article, we'll take a look at how we can leverage the Runtime and ProcessBuilder classes to execute shell commands and scripts with Java. We use computers to automate many things in our daily jobs. System administrators run many commands all the time, some of which are very repetitive...
David Landup
System administrators and developers frequently turn to automation to reduce their workload and improve their processes. When working with servers, automated tasks are frequently scripted with shell scripts. However, a developer might prefer to use a more general higher-level language for complex tasks. Many applications also need to interact with...
Arpan Abhishek
Deploying an application requires developers to put thought and consideration into how it is configured. Many apps are deployed in a development environment before being deployed to the production environment. We need to ensure each environment is configured correctly, it could be disastrous if our production application was using our...
Marcus Sanatan
Python offers several options to run external processes and interact with the operating system. However, the methods are different for Python 2 and 3. Python 2 has several methods in the os module, which are now deprecated and replaced by the subprocess module, which is the preferred option in Python...
Scott Robinson
Command line arguments are strings of text used to pass additional information to a program when an application is run through the command line interface (CLI) of an operating system. Command line arguments typically include information used to set configuration or property values for an application. In most cases the...
In this article we'll show you the various methods of looping through arrays in Bash. Array loops are so common in programming that you'll almost always need to use them in any significant programming you do. To help with this, you should learn and understand the various types of arrays...
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