Pup is a command-line utility fox extracting, filtering, and printing parts of HTML documents. It was inspired by the popular jq utility that can perform similar tasks for JSON documents, which was previously covered in the April 27, 2018, Scout Report. Users select parts of pages using CSS selector syntax. Pup includes support for complex syntax like attribute selectors, pseudo classes, and...

Radian is an enhanced interactive console for the GNU R statistical computing system. It provides rich syntax highlighting, multi-line editing, and auto-completion similarly to Python's IPython or Ruby's IRB. Radian may be a good middle ground for users that find vanilla R to be a bit too spartan but RStudio to be a bit too heavyweight. The Settings section provides an overview of the...

The classic UNIX `grep` command searches in text files for lines that match a pattern. It was named for the command in `ed` (the original UNIX text editor) that it replicated, g/re/p to perform a Global search for a Regular Expression and Print anything that matched. Ugrep extends classic grep with a number of helpful features including support for Unicode files, fast parallel search of multiple...

WP-CLI is a command-line tool to manage Wordpress sites. It can create and update Wordpress sites, install and update plugins and themes, perform database operations, and more. Using WP-CLI, Wordpress admins can accomplish most site management tasks without using a browser. The Quick Start Guide (linked from the project's front page) walks through a series of example tasks and provides pointers to...