Windows provides different system management modes like interactive and batch. Batch management mode is used like running scripts without or little user interaction. Batch File and Extension Batch files are text files which contains MSDOS and Windows commands and tools. Batch files generally uses bat or cmd extensions.But other extensions can be used as long as they will run as batch file with cmd.exe .We can run a batch file...
Python is popular programming language used by a lot of people from different professions. Python is a scripting language supported by different platforms and operating systems like Windows, Linux, MacOs, BSD etc. Developing and running python can be done in different ways but in practical way we generally need some editor. Python Idle is simple editor which provides basic features of advanced Integrated Development Environments. Install For Windows In Windows...
[rps-include post=6632] Nmap provides script scanning which gives nmap very flexible behavior to get more information and test about the target host. This feature is called Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE). NSE gives user the ability to write scripts for test. Lua is programming language supported by NSE. NSE have some vulnerability detection scripts too. NSE have categories to make things tidy. Here are these categories auth is used to authentication related...
Powershell scripts are used to complete tasks simply running script files. This provides easy to use way to run the same commands again and again. Scripts also used to share the experience with other system administrators easily. Scripts may need sometimes parameters to the operator. In this tutorial, we will look at different aspects and usage forms of Powershell scripts. Enable Powershell Script Execution with Execution Policy Security is an...
Linux bash provides different commands for daily usage. execcommand is mainly used to run commands in a bash environment. We can also provide parameters to this command. Syntax Syntax of exec command is like below.
1 | exec OPTIONS COMMAND ARGUMENTS |
Run Program or Script Directly Without using exec we can run programs and scripts too. But we should make these executable. We will use chmod u+x command which makes given program or script executable for the...
[rps-include post=6835] While writing bash scripts we generally expects some results and provide these results to other scripts. But things goes not well as we expect. So we need to see under the hood and what is happening while script is running. Debugging is inspecting bash scripts to see what is wrong with script or show detailed information about script run. Debugging Whole Script To make whole script debug mode...
[rps-include post=6835] One of the most strong side of the Unix and Linux operating system is their scripting ability and features. Unix and Linux systems generally uses bash as default shell and scripting facility. In this tutorial we will look how to create script and run scripts in bash shell. Creating A Script File Writing scripts that will run periodically needs to save script into a file. Script file contains same...
[rps-include post=6835] Bash history goes to the early 1970’s when first bash version is released with mainstream Unix operating system. Bash is then ported into a lot of different platforms like Ultrix, AIX, SunOS, Linux. Bash is the shell and command interpreter for Linux,Unix,BSD etc. operating systems. Bash is the acronym of Bourne-Again Shell . Bash adds a lot of feature to the standard sh . Alternative to bash is...
PowerShell is a task automation and configuration management provided by Microsoft for Windows Operating systems. Powershell provides interactive shell for issuing commands. Powershell platform also provides scripting language. Powershell have access to the underlying operating system components like COM , WMI WS-Management etc. Powershell is developed in .Net framework. Versions Powershell started developing in 2003 but it takes some time to release first version. PowerShell 1.0 First version released in 2006 and supported...
Expect is a scripting language used to automate interactive shells. For example if we want to automate Cisco devices over a shell by using some expect scripting. Expect scripting generally works on specified strings. Most used expect commands are like below. send to send strings to the process expect wait for the specific string from the process spawn to start new command Expect Script Installation Expect have a shell to interpret and execute...
