continuous tailing of a gzip file (efficiently!)

gztool can extract data from a gzip file at any position, and also do tail and continuous tailing of it ! (https://github.com/circulosmeos/gztool) Continue reading →

Perl cmdline with Unicode in Windows

These days I’ve been busy redoing a script in Perl that I’ve been using for more than ten years: rnm, which renames files (and directories) with Unicode support in both Windows and linux. In brief, it uses Win32::OLE Perl module to correctly manage files with Unicode chars in Windows. The problem arises when I want … Continue reading →