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. Perl is everywhere. Most ...

A test script written in Perl to parse command line arguments and output different things depending on the option entered. The Perl Command Line Parser is a CLI app (currently just a test script) that ...

This module adheres to the POSIX syntax for command line options, with GNU extensions. In general, this means that options have long names instead of single letters, and are introduced with a double ...

I write Perl programs that use the Windows shell command dir. The dir command is built into cmd.exe and there is no dir.exe in the System folder. My colleagues use my Perl programs and some of them ...

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 want to ...

I get to write a handy dandy little script that calls other little programs and then does handy dandy little things with the output from those other little scripts, such as FTPing to a ...