Doctors said my eyes were just dry—now I live with a devastating disability Watch: Police smash window to rescue baby locked in 110-degree car Meet the newborn pygmy hippo named by 116,000 fans ...

Of course, Perl 5 is here to stay (please note what happened with people who were predicting the demise of Fortran ;-), and in most cases, old scripts will stay too. In many cases conversion is not ...

Here’s a trick that I learned recently that allows me to combine a string of arguments into a single variable. In my case, this was necessitated by a script that I was preparing to help analyze ...

Scheme can be a little difficult","to use if one does not already know the language."," ","Perl as a language is far more capable than Scheme, and also has CPAN, giving access to vast numbers of ...

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 ...

Platypus is an excellent utility that lets you turn virtually any script into a self-contained Mac OS X application. Free and remarkably simple to use, Platypus will support just about any shell ...