For instance, if 20,000 lines through a certain file, the script breaks, instead of re-running the script from the start, tail can be used to read only from the line on which the script failed. There ...

Although bash scripts are regularly maligned, they do have a certain simplicity and ease of creation that makes them hard to resist. But sometimes you really need to do some heavy lifting in anothe… ...

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.

When running Python interactively or on a script file, you rarely need to care about this global namespace. However, when running the embedded interpreter, you'll often need to access this dictionary ...

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 ...