Open-source tools aren’t just for Linux anymore. Popular tools such as rsync, cURL, Git, and Wget have come to IBM i. Although such open-source tools have been available for years in AIX distributions by Michael Perzl, those RPM packages required extra know-how, and weren’t officially supported by IBM. For an illustration of how common these tools are on Linux, I was asked today by one of our PHP developers, “Could it be that IBM i does not have rsync?” He needed to synchronize PHP scripts between his PC and the server. I was happy to answer that rsync was supported...
The post Open-Source Tools (rsync, cURL, Git and more) on IBM i appeared first on Seiden Group: The PHP and IBM i Experts.