Category: Perl

TarColor: color the output of tar tvf similarly to the way GNU ls would

One day I was looking through a tar file and looking for an executable. When I use ls, I can do this at a glance by just looking for green filenames, as I always have my ls configured to show executable files in green. It...

PerlProgramming

Perl->{‘5.10’} += (“//” && > Operator[s])? =~ /amusing/

A snippet from the latest freshmeat.net announcement of Perl 5.10 that landed in my email inbox: This version includes a new smart match operator, a switch statement, the // defined-or operator, regular expression improvements,...

Perl

Perl is evil

What other language would let you do this? ''=~( '(?{' .('`' |'%') .('[' ^'-') .('`' |'!') .('`' |',') .'"'. '\\$' .'==' .('[' ^'+') .('`' |'/') .('[' ^'+') .'||' .(';' &'=') .(';' &'=') .';-' .'-'. '\\$' .'=;' .('[' ^'(') .('['...

PerlPHPProgrammingPythonRuby

Komodo, a Komodity

ActiveState Komodo is a programmer's IDE for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows that is tailored for programming with a number of dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl. I came across this post the other day which...

GeneralPerlProgramming

Got Zoidberg working

After quite a bit of futzing around, I got Zoidberg working. I had mentioned here that I had installed it, but that the cd command wasn't working. Well, here's what I did... (more…)...

PerlProgramming

Zoidberg – a modular perl shell

I'm playing around a bit with: Zoidberg - a modular perl shell The idea of having a shell that allows Perl-syntax is interesting. The problem I am having right now is that the "cd" command doesn't work. That one is kind of a...

PerlProgrammingTiVo

Perl for TiVo Series 2

It took a while for me to figure out how to build this sucker for TiVo, because Perl has a different build process than most other Unix programs and I had to manually tell it all the right config settings for the TiVo MIPS. And...