I'm a Perl novice and I'm trying to figure out the following: How do I get at all the files in a given directory AND in all of its subdirectories? I want to open each one of them, do some things to ...

Originally, this article was stored on a minimalistic web site. I, along with the thousands of users who use that site, use FTP to maintain the content. This used to mean that after making changes to ...

In my last article for Linux Journal's web edition, I discussed a web-based program that queried an SQL database and output a native Excel file. That article was based on a program I wrote for a ...

A lot of information is available about individual files on a Unix system. For example, the ls -l command will display the permissions matrix and ls -i will display a file’s inode. But, if we want to ...

I am trying to build DB_File perl module on a AIX box. I have built and install BerkeleyDB 4.8, it is installed at /usr/local/BerkeleyDB. When I attempt to build the module, this is what I receive.

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 ...