Carbon Silk

Shell scripts are a simple way of completing (repetitive) tasks on the command line, much like many programming languages will be used. You will see ~ something — ignore the ‘~’ this is to signify that it is a command entered onto the command line itself.
Writing the code
~ vi helloworld.sh

#!/bin/bash
# My first script
MESSAGE=”Hello World!”
echo $MESSAGE

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Keeping on top of your email inbox can be a full time job in itself, this is my solution to that problem

I recently attended my old university — the University of Greenwich to view the final year Multimedia & Internet Technology students’ presentations of  what they had been up to over the course of their studies. I had been in this same position 4 years ago, however standing observing it all came rushing back like it [...]