Since Solaris doesn't have GNU "date", Perl seems pretty much the only game in town, if I want to convert a static time stamp to the epoch time format. Given I'm not much of a Perl wizard, how do ...

The following script tracks the filament consumption during the print and displays it to the printer’s LCD (if it has one) using the M117 command.

Ok so I'm taking a class this semester entitled "Introduction to Web Programming"; we're currently learning Perl. Yesterday's assignment was a HTML form that asked two questions, then wrote the ...

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.

You write a Perl script to do it for you, of course! Learn about the basics of writing Perl statements with this script walk-through.

To skip over blanks lines in a perl script, you have several choices. You could use a “next if /^$/” (skip if empty) command or a “next if /^s*$/” skip if empty or only white space.

Web reports can be produced in a lot of ways using any of the many server-side programming technologies, such as PHP, JSPs, Perl scripts and the like. Standalone desktop reporting tools also are ...

on August 3, 2002 You're trying to use a Perl script from an old issue of Linux Journal, and it isn't working out. Well, this is as good an opportunity as any to see how things you don't touch still ...