invoke the SAS System on the remote host (by using the SAS command). set the appropriate communications options for the remote SAS session in the SAS command. On the remote host, the script sets the ...

If your automated script takes action based on a value, it's critical to make sure the value is correct. Good thing PowerShell has ways to validate the values that are passed to a function. In recent ...

Don’t copy and paste the same code over and over again. Instead, create a PowerShell function and save yourself time.

To avoid errors, it's important to write PowerShell scripts that prevent code from running on an unintended platform. Luckily, this is easier to do than it sounds. Up until a few years ago, PowerShell ...

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 ...

When writing PowerShell scripts, there always seems to come a time when a single script just isn't enough. Although it's important to keep your scripts as simple as possible, it's also important to ...

Techniques so absurdly simple, you'll curse all the code you wrote without them.