If you are writing a program that has a technical user base, it is a nice touch to make the program scriptable. In fact, you might want to do the hard work in a programming language and then use your ...

Most scripting engines also allow you to bind host variables of the Java environment to your script, as well as invoking specific scripting functions. Please note that some scripting engines require ...

For this article, I thought it would be beneficial to go back to some basics of shell scripting and look at how functions work. Most script writers probably eschew using functions because it's a bit ...