Enter Perl, the Swiss Army knife of languages, with a cast of thousands thanks to the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN). Embedding Perl into MySQL gave me a lot of flexibility in being able to ...

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.

The Perl programming community had much to celebrate this year. Shortly after the millennium, along came the first major release of Perl since the middle of the last decade, when Perl 5 made its debut ...

Perl One-Liners: 130 Programs that Get Things Done by Peteris Krumins, no starch press, 2014 When I first saw the title of this book, I asked myself “An entire book of one-liners?

An associative array is an array which uses strings as indices instead of integers. To see how associative arrays work, we’re going to look at both the Korn shell and Perl, though only 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 ...

In 1994, Jon Orwant, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, learned the power of the Unix scripting language Perl. “I bet a friend a six-pack of beer that I could write ...

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 course ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Descrambling DVDs just got even easier, thanks to a pair of MIT programmers.Using only seven lines of Perl code, Keith Winstein and Marc Horowitz have created the shortest-yet ...