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 ...

As the subject suggests, I'm trying to run a Perl script on my Debian box (kernel 2.2.20, Apache 1.3.26, Perl 5.6.1). Instead of running, however, my web browser (IE5.5) tries to download the ...

You may think of PERL as something for Unix gurus, but wise Windows administrators can also benefit from this powerful scripting language. So just what is PERL, and where did it come from? PERL stands ...

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 ...

Every programming language has its strengths...and its weaknesses. We identify five tasks for which perl is ideally suited, and four that...well, really, shouldn't you choose something else? We all ...

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 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 ...

Most of our beloved tools, such as Slic3r, Cura or KISSlicer, offer scripting interfaces that help a great deal if your existing 3D printing toolchain has yet to learn how to produce decent results ...

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 ...