AppleScript Menu can do more than just run AppleScripts. It allows you to run Perl scripts and Shell scripts just as easily! Any shell-based scripting language will work.

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 ...

FastScripts offers easy access to scripts and extensive configurability. The latest release of FastScripts also lets you see the progress of scripts in the FastScripts menu.

Since Solaris doesn't have GNU "date", Perl seems pretty much the only game in town, if I want to convert a static time stamp to the epoch time format. Given I'm not much of a Perl wizard, how do ...

Originally, this article was stored on a minimalistic web site. I, along with the thousands of users who use that site, use FTP to maintain the content. This used to mean that after making changes to ...