Command-line Perl scripts can make adminstering a UNIX box easier by replacing certain commands with some routine scripts. Find out how to take advantage of this approach.

In Perl, every other array element is actually the index value. If you run into errors using associative arrays in Perl that tell you that you can’t use an undefined value as a symbol reference ...

Perl One-Liners: 130 Programs that Get Things Done by Peteris Krumins, no starch press, 2014 When I first saw the title of this book, I asked myself “An entire book of one-liners?

I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested is working on the network with Perl. Rick Bourassa is a network consultant in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He has been using Linux since 1997. He ...

A lot of information is available about individual files on a Unix system. For example, the ls -l command will display the permissions matrix and ls -i will display a file’s inode. But, if we ...

Perl's historical relationship to UNIX is also presented, as is a comparison to TCL and Python. In the final section, entitled "Hats Off to Larry?", the author begins the section with what has become ...

See question 2.8 in the comp.unix.questions FAQ: here. It applies to perl as well.<BR><BR>The punch line: in general, you can't do it. The child process just gets a copy of the environment from ...

In 1994, Jon Orwant, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, learned the power of the Unix scripting language Perl. “I bet a friend a six-pack of beer that I could write ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Descrambling DVDs just got even easier, thanks to a pair of MIT programmers.Using only seven lines of Perl code, Keith Winstein and Marc Horowitz have created the shortest-yet ...