You want some menial job automated? Some research-y task done? Parse some CSV files, do something with the data? Batch process? Well why not use the language already know instead of learning bash, shell, php scripting or whatever? Nodejs Grab the latest version from https://nodejs.org/en/download/current/ and let's go! Check, check, 1, 2, 3 Open your favorite command prompt/terminal/shell (Mac use