Regarding the ability to create a double-clickable Terminal script (see previous item), Scott Lahteine notes that: AppleScript Menu can do more than just run AppleScripts. It allows you to run Perl ...

Command-line Perl scripts can make adminstering a UNIX box easier by replacing certain commands with some routine scripts. Find out how to take advantage of this approach. Perl is everywhere. Most ...

Linux, known for its robustness and flexibility, has been a favorite among developers, system administrators, and technology enthusiasts. One of the pillars of Linux's capabilities is its inherent ...

There are a lot of really nice scripting languages available to Unix admins, but Perl is still one of my favorites for doing any work that involves regular expressions — any text that you can describe ...

As part of my attempts to investigate Hip Webzine readership patterns using the information recorded in the World Wide Web server's logfile, I wrote a suite of three Perl scripts, as documented in the ...

In the post-genomic era, with an ever-increasing amount of sequence information, it is critical to develop tools that assist in sifting through all the data to identify information amidst the noise.

Most of our beloved tools, such as Slic3r, Cura or KISSlicer, offer scripting interfaces that help a great deal if your existing 3D printing toolchain has yet to learn how to produce decent results ...

As systems get larger and the number of users they support increases, it becomes more difficult to manage systems using only the old-fashioned UNIX /etc/passwd file. A common solution to this problem ...