It isn’t an uncommon scenario. The obvious answer is to create an archive — a zip or tar file, maybe — and include a shell script that you have to tell the user to run after unpacking.

When you log in to the computer, if you see a message box with an error message saying Can not find script file in Windows 11 and Windows 10, then this post may be ...

You can wrap an executable file around a PowerShell script (PS1) so that you can distribute the script as an .exe file rather than distributing a “raw” script file. This eliminates the need of ...

A batch file refers to those text files that usually end with a ".bat" extension that contains multiple commands that the system can run in sequence from the Command Prompt to perform different tasks.

Today’s piece shows how to automate a well-known Windows open source SFTP client using script files. Checking this option helps to simplify WinSCP scripts and batch files — this is because the ...

Originally I made a small script calling robocopy and that worked ... source can be either the relative path to the file, or the absolute path, it doesn't matter (absolute is safer).

Figure 1 Part of a setup file for a Teledyne LeCroy Windows-based oscilloscope using ASCII text-based Visual Basic script. The command for setting the vertical scale of channel 1 is highlighted.