Perl script to ping, check ports and create a CGI page report. This time written a bit more complicated than necessary to highlight some uses of Perl.

It's not often that I write about Perl Scripting on Unix Tutorial, but that's just because I don't script in Perl this much on a regular basis. Today, however, I'd like to share one of the building blocks - a really basic piece of functionality which you'll find really useful in almost any Perl script.

Perl and Bash ports of our newbie program to convert binary numbers to decimal. Code written for ease-of-reading, where possible. If you don't script already; start! :)

Simple Perl Script To Do Mass Emailing From Lists Running Any Mail Agent On Linux Or Unix.

Perl script to manage connections to console server ports written for Linux or Unix.

"If Perl 6 is a little daunting, take a smaller bite by reading one of Adriano Ferreira's Perl 6 microarticles. The index of articles is on the official Perl 6 wiki on the page called Perl 6 microarticles. As of now the list of articles is..."

"What sort of programmer uses Perl? Do most Perl programmers use it as a primary language, or just write the occasional script? ..."

Make your Web Pages really hard to read. Even in a mirror ;)

Translating equivalent arithmetic operations between bash, Perl and awk. Part of an ongoing series on porting code.