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Downloading and Installing Perl in 2021

Apr 27, 2021 by Mark Gardner

tutorials
perl
download
install
linux
windows
mac
unix
perlbrew
plenv
activestate
strawberry-perl

How to download and install Perl on Windows, macOS, and Linux

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The Rock Pi S Review

Jan 23, 2020 by Timm Murray

hardware
linux
gpio
raspberry-pi
rpi
raspberry_pi
rockpi

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

networking
dd-wrt
linux
netflows
rflow
whois
ntop
net-whois-ip
data-netflow

Do you know who your phone is talking to?

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Fixing a sluggish Linux after suspend-resume

Apr 26, 2016 by David Farrell

linux
linux
cpupower
pstate
suspend
sleep
resume
governor

The cpupower program can resolve throttled machines

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Prevent harmful Linux updates with versionlock

Mar 21, 2016 by David Farrell

linux
fedora
yum
dnf
linux
versionlock
ubuntu
debian

How to avoid breaking software updates

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How to get Perl 6 now

Dec 31, 2015 by David Farrell

perl-6
linux
windows
rakudo
osx
panda

Installation instructions for Linux, OSX and Windows

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Schedule jobs like a boss with every

Dec 22, 2013 by David Farrell

apps
linux
sysadmin
config
osx
cron

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

development
file
linux
windows
powershell
bash
crlf
osx

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

security
linux
useragent
openvpn
screen_scraping

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

apps
configuration
linux
unix
sysadmin
mac
config

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

development
linux
windows
mac
global_variables
core
signal
posix
sigint

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

tooling
configuration
linux
unix
bash
mac
perlbrew

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

managing-perl
configuration
cpan
debugging
documentation
linux
networking
sysadmin

How to tackle this tricky config issue

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Test if the user is root

Apr 10, 2013 by David Farrell

development
flow
linux
unix
variable
windows
mac

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

community
cgi
e-smith
enterprise
linux
template

-> 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

community
linux
postmodern
theory

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…

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