Is there a way I can run a shell script via http? I'm assuming I need to use pearl or something but I'm not sure. I want to setup a way to shut down my server via a HTTP control panel on my intranet ...

Anything your command line can do, at the click of a button.

You need to package up a bunch of files, send them somewhere, and do something with them at the destination. It isn’t an uncommon scenario. The obvious answer is to create an archive — a zip or tar ...

Shell scripting is one of those skills that are absolutely invaluable on especially UNIX and BSD-based systems like the BSDs, the two zillion Linux distributions as well as MacOS. Yet not every shell ...

Few aspects of Unix system administration are more intimate than the relationship between the admin and their chosen shell. After all, the shell is the most fundamental interface to the system, the ...