Introduction cron is a utility that you can use to schedule and automate tasks. By defining items in the cron table, called crontab, you can schedule any script or program to run on almost any sort of schedule. A few examples: Download RSS feeds daily at 6:30am, Run a program 5 minutes after midnight on […]
Tag: command-line
Unix is my IDE
An integrated development environment (IDE) such as PHPStorm, Eclipse or Netbeans provides a set of tools and integrations available together to make development easier. Common features are: Text Editor Project search and replace Automatic building, testing, linting Source control integration The command-line meets all of these features. Editor First, my text editor is vim. I […]
Python Argparse Cookbook
I use Python as my go-to tool for command-line scripts, these often requiring parsing command-line arguments. Since I use various programming languages I don’t remember anything, so I create reference docs for myself and hopefully others. So similar to my Python String Format Cookbook, that is examples for string and number formatting, I wrote this […]
Command-line Basics and Tips
A collection of tips to help you on the command-line using Linux, Mac OS X or other unixy command-line system. You might already know most but hopefully there are a few new ones or helpful tips on how to save time and use in productive ways. I’ve tried to include real and useful examples for […]