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. Perl is everywhere. Most ...

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 get to write a handy dandy little script that calls other little programs and then does handy dandy little things with the output from those other little scripts, such as FTPing to a ...

What functions and command line options are there available as far as reading the file's timestamp is concerned?<BR><BR>I am writing a script to put in cron that deletes symlinks that are older than ...