I have a program currently written in Perl that checks the values of about 2gb worth of tab-delimited text files (files vary in size from about 10mb to 500mb). Every value of every file is checked ...

I was recently asked to help automate a long manual process at work. I need to take two input files that look like this (but longer) Code: *MB321LL/A 0 0 4 *MB128LL/A 0 0 2 *MB129LL/A 0 0 2 *Z0EM ...

Originally, this article was stored on a minimalistic web site. I, along with the thousands of users who use that site, use FTP to maintain the content. This used to mean that after making changes to ...

In my last article for Linux Journal's web edition, I discussed a web-based program that queried an SQL database and output a native Excel file. That article was based on a program I wrote for a ...

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 ...