Perl

FAQ 8.40 How do I avoid zombies on a Unix system?
This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq8.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at http://faq.perl.org . --------... 5 Apr 2008 21:05

Newbie wants a simple script in perl
Hi I have a file called "list1" - its got about 80 rows - each row is alpha numeric name w/ ".txt" extension - each name refers to a file in the dir. The script reads the list - for each name in the list, it will perform an operation (an executable of a "C-program" and writes to same name with a different ext... 7 Apr 2008 02:42

FAQ 8.30 How can I convert my shell script to perl?
This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq8.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at http://faq.perl.org . --------... 5 Apr 2008 14:54

FAQ 8.18 How can I do an atexit() or setjmp()/longjmp()? (Exception handling)
This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq8.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at http://faq.perl.org . --------... 5 Apr 2008 09:17

FAQ 8.22 Why do setuid perl scripts complain about kernel problems?
This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq8.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at http://faq.perl.org . --------... 5 Apr 2008 03:25

Perlqt and QT-Designer
I am trying to get PerlQT working on Debian Etch, which isn't in the package tree. QT-Designer is, so it installs with no problem. PerlQT has to be installed from source and it also works. That is, I can write a perl script with QT bindings and the program runs fine. But I can't get PerlQT noticed as a plugin b... 4 Apr 2008 22:59

FAQ 8.15 How do I set the time and date?
This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq8.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at http://faq.perl.org . --------... 4 Apr 2008 21:20

perl should be improved and perl6
perl provides good things and bad ones. In the good thing, such as: * it is adapted for text processing * it is poorly typed * it is enough powerful with unicode * provide arrays and hash and reference (and objects) * transparently manage any kind of numbers. * is C interfacable * has basic network and IPC po... 17 Apr 2008 00:25

FAQ 8.19 Why doesn't my sockets program work under System V (Solaris)? What does the error message "Protocol not supported" mean?
This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq8.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at http://faq.perl.org . --------... 4 Apr 2008 15:11

FTP problem
Hello, in the past I used Net::FTP for ftp and had no problems, however if I try to connect to a ftp url like ftp://ftp.gimp.org/ I can't connect? $ftp = Net::FTP->new($url, Debug=>1 [, Passive=>1]) or die 'cannot conect'; Any ideas what the problem is? ... 4 Apr 2008 12:23