A recent post about debugging constructs surprised me. There were quite a few comments about how you didn’t need a debugger, as long as you had printf. For that matter, we’ve all debugged systems ...

One of the most difficult things about PowerShell scripting is finding and fixing any bugs that exist within the script. This process isn't usually a big deal for short PowerShell scripts, but it can ...

The printf command offers well-defined behavior following the POSIX standard, which means it works the same way across shells ...

Debug the longer PowerShell scripts by inserting breakpoints -- and some choice PowerShell cmdlets -- that will help you see how scripts are processing information along the way. When developing a ...

Last month, we continued our journey into the dark caverns of Apache Web logs, examining how relatively simple shell scripts can be utilized to produce useful and important data. The specific script ...

Code doesn't always go as planned. It would be great if we all could write code that works perfectly all the time but ultimately bugs will creep in and our code never works right the first time.

Shell scripting is one of those skills that are absolutely invaluable on especially UNIX and BSD-based systems like the BSDs, the two zillion Linux distributions as well as MacOS. Yet not every shell ...

One of the most difficult things about PowerShell scripting is finding and fixing any bugs that exist within the script. This process isn't usually a big deal for short PowerShell scripts, but it can ...