A shell script jpg2png.sh converts all images in JPEG format in the current directory to PNG format. It is assumed that JPEG files and only JPEG files have the suffix jpg. If the conversion is ...

I'm not entirely comfortable working with Perl so please forgive any glaring ignorance here. The Configure script from 1.0.2 contains: Can't open perl script " # WARNING: do not edit! # Generated by ...

As part of my attempts to investigate Hip Webzine readership patterns using the information recorded in the World Wide Web server's logfile, I wrote a suite of three Perl scripts, as documented in the ...

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 ...

Perl is designed to make it easy to write secure setuid and setgid scripts. Unlike shells, which are based on multiple substitution passes on each line of the script, perl uses a more conventional ...

Shown below are samples of the output files that are generated by the suite of three Perl scripts in Appendix B of this paper. The samples shown are a very small subset of the total data. They are ...

Every programming language has its strengths...and its weaknesses. We identify five tasks for which perl is ideally suited, and four that...well, really, shouldn't you choose something else? We all ...

Each script is explained, although a “working knowledge” of Perl is needed to get much out of the discussions. My knowledge of Perl is fairly rudimentary — there’s a good reason I write stories and ...