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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Bringing automation to ASIC design typically includes the use of “Scripts†. In the new competitive generation of chip designing where Time-to-Market is so critical, you need a way to finish your ...

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 ...

Perl is a language often associated with text processing and CGI. PHP is a language often associated with dynamic Web pages. Both are very popular with Web developers. Often, each of these languages ...

Each script is explained, although a “working knowledge” of Perl is needed to get much out of the discussions. My knowledge of Perl is fairly rudimentary — there’s a good reason I write stories and ...