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24.03 Mac in the Shell: Scripting with PHP

by Edward Marczak
Mar, 2008 Issue

Article Synopsis

Since the inception of this column, I’ve covered general shell tools, bash commands and general bash scripting. Life in the shell involves much more! There are many other scripting environments – and shells, for that matter! While I won’t be stepping totally outside of bash, I will be looking at other ways to automate your environment. While I like bash, I don’t necessarily love it. PHP – yes, the one you may know from web development – has a CLI component that makes a great scripting language. Of course, it’s installed by default under OS X (version 5.2.4 as of OS 10.5.1). So let’s dig in and learn some new techniques.

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