Although this may actually belong in the programming forum, I figure that more Slackware users will see it here and maybe use it and/or improve upon it (I'm not exactly a programmer, but am just able ...

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 ...

For many system administrators, myself included, Perl is the scripting language of choice. Perl is nearly ubiquitous, available for most operating systems in popular use today. Thanks to the free ...

Like most Linux users, I started out using a simple Bash script to configure the firewall policy on my Linux machines. Eventually, I got tired of writing the same code over and over again, so I ...

Many people are thinking of ssh tunnels when they talk about port forwarding. It’s easy to set up and you probably have everything you need (i.e., ssh) on most any system you want to use it on. Port ...

Discover how to improve the performance of your Apache server configuration with the help of a must-use Perl script. Apache server software, out of the box, is impeccably well designed. By doing very ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the post-genomic era, with an ever-increasing amount of sequence information, it is critical to develop tools that assist in sifting through all the data to identify information amidst the noise.