The Linux script command has been around for ages and provides a simple but useful service. It lets you record command line activity – both input and output.

Apple's built-in text editors offer some quick options for locating and revealing line numbers in documents, which can be exceptionally useful when scripting.

I would have done it the 2nd way with VBScript rather than hack around with a command line script. If there is anything that needs looping, I default to VBScript.

I kick off SFTP scripts from the command line using a traditional batch file. For example, this is a listing of a batch file named deploy.bat — used to start the SFTP client with script file.