Guys, in todays post we'll look into an example where we want to extract version number from pom.xml of a Maven based project. In other...

Guys, am sure this post will definitely interest you - how to play an audio file from Terminal on Mac OS X without using iTunes. Well, we p...

Hello coders! Hows it going? Today we'll see a basic simple shell script to print a triangle using asterisk * only. Here's the code...

Guys, if you ever wanted to find out the exact specific port number used by a process/application on Unix/Mac OSX/Linux, type the following...

Guys, in today's post we'll see how to parse a file line by line and count the number of lines in it. We will simply use redirect...

Ola guys. I hope you came across my previous posts on setting up Ant and Maven with Jenkins. In today's post I'll show you how to s...

In today's post we'll look into a very simple entry level bash script in which we form all possible alphanumeric combinations using...

Guys in todays post let us look into a simple basic Mathematics problem. Let us automate the calculation of area and circumference of a cir...

Guys you might often come across some situations where you want to check if a server or machine is physically up and running. Quite obvious...

Guys, today we'll look into a very basic simple shell script to calculate the Simple Interest. For this we need 3 essential details : ...

Guys you may be aware that you can find your current shell in Mac OSX or any Unix machine by typing the following in Terminal. echo $SHE...

Guys in today's new gem, we'll see how to play the hidden game Tetris on Mac OS X which comes bundled by default for FREE. Didn...

Hi guys, in today's article we will see how to upgrade Subversion on Mac OS X using Homebrew. Subversion i.e SVN as you know is a popul...

Lets look into a fairly simple task with a slight twist today - update/modify a part of the file paths mentioned within a file using Sed fr...

Guys, you know that $# is a special variable that gives the arguments passed to the shell script. $1 will give the 1st argument passed, $...

Folks you may be aware that ls -a will list all hidden files and visible files as well. But to list only the hidden files, type the follo...

Oh boy! yet another Mac OS X hidden gem that you probably weren't aware of. Type this is Terminal to read Mrs Fields secret Cookies r...

Guys, presenting a mind blowing Mac OS X hidden gem that I just stumbled onto. Type the following in Terminal to read some Apple supplied...

Guys, I hope you must be aware, that the commands that you type in terminal get saved in the history. On Mac OS X, the default size of comm...

Lets look into a simple task today - remove all whitespaces from a file in Unix / Mac OS X from the command line. To do so, let's con...