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 ...

A similar Perl pie command might change Windows (DOS) style line endings (carriage return, linefeed) to Unix style line endings (linefeed only) or to replace other bytes in a file whether the file is ...

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 want to ...

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 newest ...

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 an ...

I am trying to build DB_File perl module on a AIX box. I have built and install BerkeleyDB 4.8, it is installed at /usr/local/BerkeleyDB. When I attempt to build the module, this is what I receive.