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 ...

Perl is a language often associated with text processing and CGI. PHP is a language often associated with dynamic Web pages. Both are very popular with Web developers. Often, each of these languages ...

Let's begin with a story. Here's what happened: my second book, coauthored with Dr Michael Moorhouse, finally was finished. I had spent an extra six months on it, which meant it now was at least six ...

Hi there,<BR><BR>I'm using a linux system and I have a perl script that needs to check the date stamp of a file and compare it to current date in YYYYMMDD format.<BR><BR>Can anyone lend me a hand with ...