Tag: 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,...