Downloading and Installing Perl in 2021
Apr 27, 2021 by Mark Gardner
How to download and install Perl on Windows, macOS, and Linux
The Rock Pi S Review
Jan 23, 2020 by Timm Murray
How to get GPIO Input with Linux and Perl without a library
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Monitoring my phone's internet activity with DD-WRT and Perl
Oct 26, 2017 by David Farrell
Do you know who your phone is talking to?
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Prevent harmful Linux updates with versionlock
Mar 21, 2016 by David Farrell
How to avoid breaking software updates
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How to get Perl 6 now
Dec 31, 2015 by David Farrell
Installation instructions for Linux, OSX and Windows
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Schedule jobs like a boss with every
Dec 22, 2013 by David Farrell
Introducing every, the cron scheduling app written in Perl
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The ultimate guide to Windows and Unix file line ending conversion in Perl
Dec 14, 2013 by David Farrell
Think you know how to fix CRLF in one line of Perl? There might be more to it than you think …
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Wear the cloak of invisibility with OpenVPN and Perl
Dec 2, 2013 by David Farrell
How to covertly screen-scrape behind an encrypted connection and masked identity
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How to schedule Perl scripts using cron
Oct 11, 2013 by David Farrell
Cron is a job scheduling program available on UNIX-like platforms. Most system commands can be scheduled including the execution of Perl programs. Once a job is setup, cron will run it as scheduled even if the user is not logged in, which can be a great way to automate sysadmin tasks or repetitive jobs. This article describes how to run Perl scripts with cron.
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Catch and Handle Signals in Perl
Aug 18, 2013 by David Farrell
We show you how to listen for signals and handle them gracefully
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Run local Perl as root
Aug 10, 2013 by David Farrell
This is a simple trick for conveniently running local Perl as a root user on UNIX-based systems.
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Installing Perl modules with C library dependencies
Apr 15, 2013 by David Farrell
How to tackle this tricky config issue
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Test if the user is root
Apr 10, 2013 by David Farrell
When Perl is executing a program, it maintains the user id of the process owner in a global variable ($<). When a Perl program is executed by root or a user with root privileges (e.g. using the sudo command), the user id variable is always set to zero. This can be checked at the command line:
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The e-smith Server and Gateway: a Perl Case Study
Feb 20, 2001 by Kirrily ""Skud"" Robert
-> The e-smith server and gateway system is a Linux distribution designed for small to medium enterprises. It’s intended to simplify the process of setting up Internet and file-sharing services and can be administered by a non-technical user with…
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Perl, the first postmodern computer language
Mar 9, 1999 by Larry Wall
Perl, the first postmodern computer language The following is the text of Larry Wall’s talk at Linux World on Wednesday, March 3. He explains why Perl is a fitting language for the postmodern era. As a member of the audience…
