Although this may actually belong in the programming forum, I figure that more Slackware users will see it here and maybe use it and/or improve upon it (I'm not exactly a programmer, but am just able ...

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 ...

For many system administrators, myself included, Perl is the scripting language of choice. Perl is nearly ubiquitous, available for most operating systems in popular use today. Thanks to the free ...

Like most Linux users, I started out using a simple Bash script to configure the firewall policy on my Linux machines. Eventually, I got tired of writing the same code over and over again, so I ...

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 ...

There are numerous ways to redirect standard error in a Perl script. You can redirect the output from one particular command, you can combine standard error with ...

Many people are thinking of ssh tunnels when they talk about port forwarding. It’s easy to set up and you probably have everything you need (i.e., ssh) on most any system you want to use it on. Port ...