I looked around for a bit, but didn't find much to suit my needs, but as perl goes, i'm sure there are 400 different better ways to do what i'm doing. I have another perl script running, but its a ...

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.

Any shell-based scripting language will work. Shell scripts and Perl scripts placed in AppleScript Menu's Scripts Folder appear as documents with # on them to denote a shell script.

Appendix B - Perl scripts for WWW logfile analysis As part of my attempts to investigate readership patterns using the information recorded in the World Wide Web server's logfile, I wrote a suite of ...

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 ...

Since Solaris doesn't have GNU "date", Perl seems pretty much the only game in town, if I want to convert a static time stamp to the epoch time format. Given I'm not much of a Perl wizard, how do ...

While Perl and Python are two different programming languages, Python has the ability to execute Perl scripts through a built in function. Since Perl and Python are designed for different ...

You write a Perl script to do it for you, of course! Learn about the basics of writing Perl statements with this script walk-through.

None of these techniques depends on what the person running the script does. Instead, they can all be set up in your Perl scripts. Let’s take a look at how this works.

The latest installment, Wicked Cool Perl Scripts, includes a 75-line script that does currency conversions, including pulling latest conversion rates from xe.com; a 37-line script that searches ...