Updated: 05/01/2001

Perl as a command-line utility

Those who use Perl as a programming language frequently forget that it is just as useful as a quick and dirty scripting engine for command-line operations. From the command line Perl can accomplish, in just a single line, tasks that require pages of code in most other languages. This article takes you through some useful examples.

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