Regarding the ability to create a double-clickable Terminal script (see previous item), Scott Lahteine notes that: AppleScript Menu can do more than just run AppleScripts. It allows you to run Perl ...

Each script is explained, although a “working knowledge” of Perl is needed to get much out of the discussions. My knowledge of Perl is fairly rudimentary — there’s a good reason I write stories and ...

Ok, I am a complete idiot when it come to Perl programming/scipting, so I figured I would come here to see if anyone can help me out. <P>We have a new FTP server at my work that the CAD guys use. I ...

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 ...

There are numerous ways to redirect standard error in a Perl script. You can redirect the output from one particular command, you can combine standard error with ...

Hello, we have recently moved from an in-house FreeBSD5 box to a managed RHEL3 box at Rackspace. I have noticed that the RHEL3 box can't handle the same amount of load (with as much grace) as our ...

Since I’m seldom in control of all the devices between myself and whatever system I am trying to reach, I often like to verify whether I will be able to connect to a particular port on the particular ...