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 ...

News briefs for June 25, 2018. Perl version 5.28.0 has been released. According to LWN.net, highlights of this release, which was 13 months in the making with approximately 730,000 lines of changes, ...

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 ...

I'm trying to write a simple script that will go through a partition and list out the top 10 files that are taking up the most space. I was planning on using perl's File command to recursively go ...

Until January of 2002, programmers wanting a book on Perl/Tk had one option: Learning Perl/Tk, by Nancy Walsh. Although well researched and accurate, it gave the reader only a basic familiarity with ...

I'd Like to write a perl program that changes the working directory of the user, not just for the duration of the code, but even afterwords (the user would still be able to hop around, of ...