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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I'm working on a basic perl script that needs to print (to a file) a variable all on one line. The variable is initially read in from a file where it may contain one or mare carriage returns or "\n"s.

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 ...

a magazine but booty-saving in real use. Right?Now for the interesting problem. Look at this line:print S "GET /$document HTTP/1.0\n\n";We're sending a one-line HTTP ...

Being a hired-gun developer, I inherit all kinds of client problems. Recently, I was tasked with exporting a delimited flat file from one application and formatting it so it could be imported into ...