Perl is a powerful, high level programming language. Questions about Perl should be limited to the Perl development environment, running Perl, or using Perl to automate tasks on your computer.
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Escaping spaces in emacs/perl
Following on from this question the command works fine, but it doesn't like it when the parent folder has spaces in its name. How do I get these spaces to be automatically escaped?
I don't know ...
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What presentation software should I use for a five minute talk?
I am giving a lightning talk shortly and need to put together some slides. It is a technical talk about Perl documentation. I will be using a OS X machine to run the presentation software.
I would ...
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manual install perl-5.10.1-3.tar.bz2 on cygwin
I have the binaries: perl-5.10.1-3.tar.bz2 and I don't have access (admin privileges) to run setup.exe for cygwin, my question is how can I install manually inside cygwin the module for perl: ...
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Where do I find nmake for Windows 7
I'm trying to compile a Perl source and I can't seem to find a version of nmake that works with Windows 7 64 bit. I've searched all over Microsoft's website and my Googlefu seems to be failing me. Can ...
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What steps to take when CPAN installation fails?
I have used CPAN to install perl modules on quite a few occasions, but I've been lucky enough to just have it work. Unfortunately, I was trying to install Thread::Pool today and one of the required ...
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Why can't my Perl script in ~/bin find relative file paths?
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use XML::LibXML;
my $parser = XML::LibXML->new;
my $file = './example.xml';
my $doc = $parser->parse_file( $file );
print ref( $doc ), "\n";
...
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installing w3c validator on Fedora 11
On Fedora 11 i have installed w3c validator using
yum install w3c-markup-validator
is this installation configure each and everything including the complete website?
followed this doc
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Perl -e insert new line [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
insert newline in perl -e statement
Hi
If I do this in bash
perl -e '$x; $y'
Is there any character that can behave like a new line?
i.e. I want to do
perl -e '$x; ...
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Insert a newline in a perl -e statement?
Consider the following Perl one-liner:
perl -e '$x; $y;'
I'm executing this command in bash and I'd like to insert a newline (\n) between the ; and $y. I'd like to know how to do this in two ...
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Linux / Perl - What happens when a process is forked?
I've read about fork and from what I understand, the process is cloned but which process? The script itself or the process that launched the script?
For example:
I'm running rTorrent on my machine ...
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How do i install Perl 5.10.1 on Debian, using the packaging system?
I have little to no idea about administrating Debian, but I would like to at least use that release of Perl. Googling has proven unfruitful, so i turn to you, Stackoverflow.
Note: Managed to find the ...
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can't use key map of perl-support.vim under windows
perl-support.vim is an awesome plug-in for thoes who use vim to write perl scripts . yes, I've been used it under linux for some thime and it just worked perlfectly for me. But recently I met some ...
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Blender + Google Sketchup 7
I have been trying to import a model from Google Sketchup 7 into Blender 2.49.
I have read countless tutorials on how to export it using the Sketchup program into various formats, but these are not ...
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Windows based Apache/PHP/Perl/database stacks
Does anyone know if XAMPP's Perl also provides Tk support? Does anyone know of a similar stack which provides PostresSQL in addition to/instead of MySQL? I'd like this to run on Win 7 and XP.
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What is the right way, to update a perl-from-sourcefile-installation?
I suppose with the onboard-perl from my linux-distribution I don’t have to care about updates.
What is the right way of doing updates when I have build my perl from sourcefiles?
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Mac OS X 10.6.2 Install DBD::mysql
I've got a Mac Mini Server with Snow Leopard 10.6.2 64bit. I'm trying to install the Perl module DBD::mysql but cannot get it to work.
Is probably worth mentioning that this is the first time I'm ...
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run Perl script as another user on windows
I want to run perl script automatically every day on win32 with different user than the currently-logged on user could someone provide an idea ?
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Linux ODBC database driver for MS SQL Server?
Where can I get an ODBC database driver for MS SQL Server? I need to publish data from a perl script in Linux to an MS SQL Server.
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Scripts that extend wget --page-requisites?
I have posted a very similar question today but I would like to ask again with a wget/linux focus. I hope that's all right.
I need to create offline copies of web pages programmatically on a LAMP ...
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Messed up my perl install on Mac OS X 10.6
I have messed up my perl install on Mac OS X 10.6. I'll explain how:
I wanted to add a cpan package for Bundle::DBD::mysql, cpan told me to update Bundle::CPAN first. I couldn't because of ...
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How can I install Perl's DBI module on Ubuntu?
While I am trying to install perl modules-DBI i am getting this kind of error
Permission denied at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/CPAN/HandleConfig.pm line 554
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How can I add menu items to the Gnome “Applications” menu from the command line?
I'm using Ubuntu 9.10, and I'd like to automate the addition of some menu items the Ubuntu "Applications" menu.
I know that I can use alacarte to make one-off additions, but I'm looking to automate ...
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How do I install Bugzilla using XAMPP in Windows?
I need to install Bugzilla using XAMPP with Perl on my Windows XP machine. What is the procedure?
I have installed PHP based applications in XAMPP like Joomla, WordPress, etc., but it seems that ...
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Perlscript runs fine when executed manually but not under cron
my wireless setup fails several times a day, restarting gnome's network manager helps. I want to automate this and hacked the following perlscript:
#!/usr/bin/perl ...
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How to install perl5.10 on OS X 10.5.8?
I need to install perl 5.10 on my OS X 10.5.8 box.
I have macports installed. And I seem to have port perl5.10 installed as well:
$ sudo port install perl5.10
Password:
---> Computing dependencies ...
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How do you manage perl modules on a Debian system?
I'd like to know if you have a method for managing perl modules on your Debian system, with respect to the following:
Installing new modules
Listing of manually installed modules
Checking ...
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ksh equivalent of perl $! error reason
Is there an equivalent of $! in ksh, which provides the error string ? $? stores the exit code only.
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Perl script running as root can't do root things
We are running RedHat Enterprise ES 5 on x86_64. We have a perl script which does, amongst other things:
make a directory
copy dot files into it
chown the whole thing
The target directory is an ...
