Yup. Take a look at http://www.roth.net/books/handbook/ -- Win32 Perl Scripting: The Administrator's Handbook; available through Amazon.
B On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Slick <jho251...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Does the information also work with Windows? I use that most. > Jason H. Owens > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> > To: beginners@perl.org > Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 10:38:53 AM > Subject: Re: More questions > > Slick <jho251...@yahoo.com> writes: > >> I was just wondering once I get the hang of this, what things can I >> program? What is the pinicale of this? (I do understand that your >> mind is the limit, but you get my drift) I want to see something >> that would be worth attaining Jason H. Owens > > I'm far from an expert... but I think, for the usage you have > described earlier (System admin)... A big end result of mastering perl > would be that you could: > manipulate files and the contents of files in any way imaginable. > extract, insert, re-arrange... combine. > Write scripts that could make the OS do your bidding. > extract whatever information you need from the OS. > manipulate the OS itself... in that you could manipulate the > rc files that the OS depends on (in unix/linux). > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
