Scripting Graphical Commands with Tcl/Tk

One of the richest aspects of Linux is its abundance of commandline utilities. The ability to rapidly provide a graphical frontend for those utilities to make them available to non−technical users can be a handy skill for a developer or administrator to possess. This article provides a cookbook−style tutorial introduction to Tcl and Tk, a scripting language and graphical toolkit that were designed to accomplish that very task.