I am working on a perl script where I would like to be able to write to two output files at the same time. The problem that I am running into is the first output file FILE will write fine but the ...

I'm a Perl novice and I'm trying to figure out the following: How do I get at all the files in a given directory AND in all of its subdirectories? I want to open each one of them, do some things to ...

Originally, this article was stored on a minimalistic web site. I, along with the thousands of users who use that site, use FTP to maintain the content. This used to mean that after making changes to ...

A lot of information is available about individual files on a Unix system. For example, the ls -l command will display the permissions matrix and ls -i will display a file’s inode. But, if we want to ...

In my last article for Linux Journal's web edition, I discussed a web-based program that queried an SQL database and output a native Excel file. That article was based on a program I wrote for a ...

While Perl and Python are two different programming languages, Python has the ability to execute Perl scripts through a built in function. Since Perl and Python are designed for different programming ...