When Apple was touting Automator as part of the OS X 10.4 Tiger upgrade, some people wondered whether AppleScript would be needed anymore. Now that we’ve seen Automator, AppleScript may be needed more ...

The error messages that are displayed when a script malfunctions range from effective to practically useless — especially when the scripts themselves are long ...

If you want to set the default script debugger in Windows 11 or Windows 10 PC, here is how you can do that. For your information, you need to use the Windows Registry Editor to get it done. So the ...

I regularly use Powershell to create a PSsession, for when I'm modifying groups of 20+ users. The verbose print and errors for debugging are quickly closed with the session when the script runs. Do we ...

All kinds of things can go wrong with your shell scripts, but they don't have to. Let's look a some debugging tips that can help ensure your scripts run the way you intend. The first step in debugging ...

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 ...

Last week's post provided some tips and tricks for debugging scripts. This week's provides some even better ones! In last week’s posting, I mentioned the -x and -v options that can be used on the ...

Let’s be honest— Microsoft Excel is a powerhouse, but it can also feel like a time sink. Whether you’re formatting endless tables, sorting mountains of data, or generating the same reports over and ...