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The looping options provided by bash include for loops, while loops and until loops. They can help you get a lot done without too much effort. The bash shell provides numerous ways to loop through ...

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 ...