The latest installment, Wicked Cool Perl Scripts, includes a 75-line script that does currency conversions, including pulling latest conversion rates from xe.com; a 37-line script that searches for ...

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 ...

Linux, known for its robustness and flexibility, has been a favorite among developers, system administrators, and technology enthusiasts. One of the pillars of Linux's capabilities is its inherent ...

Being a hired-gun developer, I inherit all kinds of client problems. Recently, I was tasked with exporting a delimited flat file from one application and formatting it so it could be imported into ...

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 ...

I've used Perl/Tk in the past and while it works, the look and feel is really that of a late 90s app. There isn't much customization you can do (in terms of skinning the default Tk widgets), so ...

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 ...