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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever used AppleScript, Apple’s scripting language, you probably know that OS X’s Script Menu gives you quick access to any scripts located in /Library/Scripts and ~/Library/Scripts. But if ...

I did some searching and I couldn't find anything as simple (and silly) and this. I have 5 files with the .pl extension on them. I simply want to know how to execute them. I am running windows 2000 ...

I looked around for a bit, but didn't find much to suit my needs, but as perl goes, i'm sure there are 400 different better ways to do what i'm doing. <BR><BR>I have another perl script running, but ...

Scripting tool software maker Late Night Software Ltd. has released Affrus, a new Mac OS X application used for editing, debugging and running Perl scripts. Affrus features syntax coloring, identifier ...

Late Night Software has released Affrus 1.0, a Mac OS X program for editing, debugging, and running Perl scripts. The software wraps Perl in a standard user interface, according to MacTech. Affrus 1.0 ...

What happens when you run a Linux command? This simple act can appear straightforward, but many different things can actually occur, depending on whether you’re running an executable program, a shell ...

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 ...