I was given the task of finding out what's wrong with a Perl script. Basically, after upgrading to a new version of Perl the script takes around 45 seconds to 'compile' before execution. The "new" ...

The Apple Developer Connection’s (ADC) Internet Developer site has published a new article with step-by-step instructions for installing Perl 5.8 on Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar). The article also walks ...

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 ...

I'm not sure if this is possible, but this is what i'd like to do:<BR>I need to right a shell script that will run within a loop within a perl script. Is there a way ...

Scripting languages are the hot technology today for application and Web development — no longer the backwater afterthought of the early days running in a pokey interpreter. Nor are scripting ...