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 similar Perl pie command might change Windows (DOS) style line endings (carriage return, linefeed) to Unix style line endings (linefeed only) or to replace other bytes in a file whether the file is ...

There are a lot of really nice scripting languages available to Unix admins, but Perl is still one of my favorites for doing any work that involves regular expressions — any text that you can describe ...

What I'm trying to do is use a Perl script to automatically change a user's allowed login hours in Active Directory. I used ADSI Edit and know what attribute to change, but I am unable to make the ...

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'm trying to do a search in Active Directory using the LDAP module in Perl. I can connect and bind a socket just find, but I don't know the filter terms so that I can filter out unwanted user ...