scripting News and Articles

Solve Bash blind spots by embedding other scripting languages into your Bash scripts to get the features you need. Pete shows you solutions for floating-point math, charting, GUIs, and hardware integration.

A Python script that captures email addresses will help you understand how bots analyze and extract data from the web.

Shell scripting is a versatile tool for managing and automating the modern IT infrastructure. This article reaches beyond the basics with some advanced techniques for tackling real-world challenges.

Even small changes in a web page can improve the browsing experience. Your preferred web browser provides all the tools you need to inject JavaScript to adapt the page. You just need a browser with its debugging tools, some knowledge of scripting, and the browser extension Tampermonkey.

The pre-commit framework lets you automatically manage and maintain your Git hook scripts to deliver better Git commits.

The Minuimus Perl script helps you save disk space by reducing the file size of PDF files with just a few commands.

In the right circumstances, apt-clone can be a simple option for cloning your Debian system.

The complexity of modern distributions offers many potential attack vectors for malware. Lynis lets you find these vulnerabilities before an attacker does.

With one line of Bash code, Pete scrapes the web and builds a desktop notification app to get the daily snow report.