sed is an excellent utility for doing substitutions, but if you need to work across multiple files, then you need to pair it with a command that can provide a list of candidate files. This is where find comes in handy. For example, to replace all instances of ‘zebra’ with ‘horse’ recursively in the current … Linux: sed to replace across multiple files in directory
For bulk administration of hosts via ssh, there are powerful tools such as Ansible for the job. However, if you need to automate ssh for a one-off task, you may find the remote host systems throwing up interactive authentication prompts for sudo that need to be answered. If you need to run sudo commands that … Bash: automating ssh login and sudo that require interactive login
If you need to batch rename a set of files, the ‘rename‘ utility is much easier than alternatives such as pairing find/exec or even putting together a small script. The rename utility gives you all the power of Perl regular expressions for converting the filenames. # make sure utility is installed $ sudo apt install … Bash: batch renaming files using the rename utility
If you are using a newer version of PowerShell, then by all means use the New-ScheduledTaskAction, New-ScheduledTaskTrigger, and Register-ScheduledTask and to create a Windows schedule task using PS scripting. But if you still need to be compatible back to PowerShell 2.0, and want to keep it simple, you can avoid using the Schedule.Service COM interface, … PowerShell: Create Windows Scheduled Task to run Powershell script every hour