The Automator application in OS X is a feature that many people use to modify documents in a folder, or perform other routine actions such as synchronizing items in a folder with those in another ...

For a long time, terminal automation has felt like something you either outgrow or overcomplicate. It starts with a couple of useful commands, then a script, then a scheduled task, and before long, ...

IT administrators are under pressure to do more with less: less time, fewer resources and never enough money. Automating steps for servers and application deployments can lift some repetitive tasks ...

I recently switched to Mac OS X as my primary desktop operating system after spending over a decade on Linux. Although Apple’s operating system supplies practically all of the command line tools I ...

An automated script is a code snippet that executes repetitive or complex tasks, such as provisioning infrastructure, managing security vulnerabilities, setting up data pipelines and testing software, ...

If you need to resize a ton of images on your Mac, Automator is the way to do it in one fell swoop. 9to5Mac shows off how to quickly make your own Automator service for doing just that. While ...

You have the shell set to tcsh but are using an sh style script. The loop doesn't seem to be the problem. I made the changes you suggested and I'm still getting the illegal variable like showing in ...

Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system administration, network administration, and consulting roles. He ...