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Perl is a language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information. It's also a good language for many system management tasks. The CPAN is Perl's module repository and is where users should turn first for code that implements solutions to already-solved problems.

From the Perl documentation:

Perl is a language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information. It's also a good language for many system management tasks. The language is intended to be practical (easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny, elegant, minimal).

Free Perl Programming Books

If you are just starting out with Perl some of the references below may be worth looking in to.

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Output of Perl Script isn't being rendered

I have a client using "FormMail.pl", which I believe is taken from some perl repository around the net. We recently migrated her site to a new server and this script stopped working. I found a few items that weren't configured on the new Apache…
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How do I invoke a Perl CGI script when the user requests an HTML page?

Is there anyway to invoke a Perl CGI script when an HTML page is requested to server? Just like a script can be tied to an action, is there anyway to tie a script to "Request for page"
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Bugzilla random lag and CPU usage

Here is the configuration : Bugzilla (3.4.2) application running on a Ubuntu server 8.04 with Perl 5.8.8. Here is the problem : Sometimes (randomly), pages take very long to load. It can be any of the login page or query.cgi page or buglist.cgi...…
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Sympa attachments are zero length when downloading from a message in moderation

I have an issue with the web interface for Sympa mailing list server. If you try to download an attachment from a message that's in moderation, the file is zero length. The mime headers are being sent correctly. The attachment is in the raw email, I…
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Cannot fetch files from CPAN

I try load modules from CPAN, but it fails something wrong with my configuration of CPAN, by I can't figure out what is cpan> install Bundle::CPAN CPAN: Storable loaded ok CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok Fetching with LWP: …
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How do I install Perl 5.8 and Perlfect on IIS 7.5?

I've got an old website that I need to keep running on a new server - Windows Server 2008 R2 with IIS 7.5. The website uses Perlfect search (http://www.perlfect.com/freescripts/search/), which requires both Perl and the DB_File Perl module. The…
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bugzilla not seeing Email::MIME

I am trying to install bugzilla and I keep getting the error that the required module Email::MIME is not found. However, when I run the install command I get: /usr/bin/perl install-module.pl Email::MIME Checking for CPAN (v1.81) ok: found…
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Can i automate a script to get EMC grab reports from different servers

Here is my issue, we have 170 unix servers , 80 ESX servers and many Windows (2003/2008)s pread across 3 EMC Clariions and 2 VMAX in which I want to perform host grabs on all the servers prior to flare code upgrade as well as , sort of, forcing…
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How can i move or copy files (or folder) from solaris server to removable disk.(Backup Tape drive)

I need to move or copy some zip(.tar,.gz,.Z) files from Solaris server to backup tape drive. I also want to retrieve from tape drive whenever I want without any loss. Kindly explain the procedure. I have less knowledge in programming.
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Windows/Apache/Perl/CGI "access is denied" when reading a file

I haven't done anything on a windows machine since I started doing serious sys-admin and development work (all *nix). So I may be asking something easy - but I haven't found the answer by searching. I've got Windows Server 2008 running Apache 2.2. I…
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Perl script segfaulting after 64-bit upgrade

I recently upgraded a 32-bit Debian server to 64-bit by re-installing, and copying my data into place. After this I have a perl script that repeats the following, and is segfaulting on the tell line: seek(FIN,$ps,0); tell(FIN, $ps); $line=; I…
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how to connect and select data from a JDBC over RMI database in perl?

I have a 3rd party application that exposes in-memory data structures via a JDBC api over RMI. How can I get data out of that database api without having to run squirrel or similar GUI application? Perl solution preferred, but java solution…
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How do I set up my own proxy server?

This website (abc.com) slowed access from our original IP address. How do I implement my own proxy server to hide my IP while browsing abc.com? Do I need special hardware/software combo to achieve this? If I can generate about 5 proxies and…
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Apache + mod_fcgid + perl = error 500

I'm trying to setup Apache2.2 with mod_fcgid and libapache2-mod-perl2 with no luck. I've created a fcgi-bin directory in the root directory of my website and put there a test.fcgi file with the following content: #!/usr/bin/perl use CGI; print…
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foswiki: use genPDF extension with topic templates?

I have a foswiki installation for keeping ISO and other documents. I would like to create a PDF from each page. How can I create a topic template with different headers and footers for each topic template? More info: When a user creates a new topic,…
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