I'm very much a perl noob.<BR><BR>What I want to achieve is simple ASCII output to COM1 from Windows.<BR>I've got an old BayTech RPC-2 Managed Powerstrip that only accepts serial input. Here is what I ...

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 ...

Command-line Perl scripts can make adminstering a UNIX box easier by replacing certain commands with some routine scripts. Find out how to take advantage of this approach. Perl is everywhere. Most ...

Basically, I have a php script that generates a web page, and I would like to send its output to a file (say, index.html).<BR><BR>The problem is that php only runs as user nobody, and I can't have ...

While other scripting languages have gained popularity, Perl remains a popular choice due to its robust text processing capabilities. It's easy to create "one-liners," or very short scripts, that can ...

Need to touch up on your Perl skills? Here are five top tips collated by Builder AU. 1. Finding all files that match a pattern Perl’s glob operator makes it easy to find all files that match a given ...

Being a hired-gun developer, I inherit all kinds of client problems. Recently, I was tasked with exporting a delimited flat file from one application and formatting it so it could be imported into ...

Problem: You need to access a Perl program from your Java program—maybe a custom screen scraper written with LWP (Library for WWW access in Perl), maybe Bugzilla, or maybe one of countless ...