So what have you learned? Instead of replacing a series of bash commands with one Python script, it often is better to have Python do only the heavy lifting in the middle. This allows for more modular ...

Sure That Works on Linux, But… Python, of course, runs on many different platforms. So why is this part of Linux Fu? Because you can easily use it to launch any command line program.

Perl, Python, and Ruby modules can ease development for large projects, but Bash is simpler and better for many tasks Last week I talked a bit about how best to protect against the vagaries of ...