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

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.

Simple bash script to use pod2html to create a one-stop reference page for all available POD documentation from your installed Perl distribution.

Over at Linux Magazine Online, Jon maddog Hall writes that on Friday the 13th, 2009 at 11:31:30pm UTC UNIX time will reach 1,234,567,890. This will be Friday, February 13th at 1831 and 30 seconds EST.

A Perl script for Linux or Unix to help solve the "M I U" formal systems puzzle of getting from MI to MU.

Finally, the Perl script that took 8 posts to deconstruct :)

A few clarifications on sorting lists of lists individually and universally.

Quick and easy way to use Perl's command line execution mode to copy timestamps to multiple files or directories.