Re: Perl Newbie question about upgrade from Perl 5.8.8 to 5.10

2009-01-16 Thread dolphin_sonar
On Jan 15, 7:39 am, telemac...@arpinum.org (Telemachus) wrote: On Wed Jan 14 2009 @  8:17, dolphin_sonar wrote: Hi, I bought the O'Reilly 5th edition Learning Perl the other day and it's great. I am new to programming and Perl as well. I do know my way around Linux but I am having

Re: Perl Newbie question about upgrade from Perl 5.8.8 to 5.10

2009-01-15 Thread Telemachus
On Wed Jan 14 2009 @ 8:17, dolphin_sonar wrote: Hi, I bought the O'Reilly 5th edition Learning Perl the other day and it's great. I am new to programming and Perl as well. I do know my way around Linux but I am having problems upgrading from the version that was on my OS (Cent OS 5.2) to

Re: perl newbie question

2005-07-26 Thread Jay Savage
On 7/25/05, FreeFall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try: perl -ne '$line=$_;END{print $line}' yourfile On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:09:50 +0530 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi , I am a perl newbie. Can someone suggest a perl command line snippet that will print the last n lines of a

Re: perl newbie question

2005-07-25 Thread Edward WIJAYA
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:39:50 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone suggest a perl command line snippet that will print the last n lines of a file. If you are under unix/linux just use tail -n command. However if you really want to go via Perl command line: $perl -e ' open FH, file

Re: perl newbie question

2005-07-25 Thread Keith Worthington
hi , I am a perl newbie. Can someone suggest a perl command line snippet that will print the last n lines of a file. thanks in advance. regards, Kaushik Kaushik, If you are on the command line I suggest the use of the tail command. tail -n 123 filename If you must perform this

RE: perl newbie question

2005-07-25 Thread Larsen, Errin M HMMA/Information Technology Department
Edward WIJAYA wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 21:39:50 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone suggest a perl command line snippet that will print the last n lines of a file. If you are under unix/linux just use tail -n command. However if you really want to go via Perl command

Re: perl newbie question

2005-07-25 Thread Matthias Ochs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi , I am a perl newbie. Can someone suggest a perl command line snippet that will print the last n lines of a file. Why do you want a Perl line for that? You could just use 'tail' (assuming you run some kind of UNIX). Matthias -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: perl newbie question

2005-07-25 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
On Jul 25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Can someone suggest a perl command line snippet that will print the last n lines of a file. The File::ReadBackwards module does it for you rather simply. -- Jeff japhy Pinyan % How can we ever be the sold short or RPI Acacia Brother #734 % the

RE: perl newbie question

2005-07-25 Thread Larsen, Errin M HMMA/Information Technology Department
Dave Adams wrote: Larsen, Hi Dave. My name is Errin. Larsen is my surname. Please, when posting replies, post to the list. I am afraid I cannot get your suggested code to work. Especially line that reads foreach reverse 0..$n; SNIP On 7/25/05, Larsen, Errin M HMMA/Information

Re: perl newbie question

2005-07-25 Thread John W. Krahn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi , Hello, I am a perl newbie. Can someone suggest a perl command line snippet that will print the last n lines of a file. perl -ne'INIT{$#x=shift()[EMAIL PROTECTED](splice(@x,1),$_)[EMAIL PROTECTED]' 4 yourfile John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: perl newbie question

2005-07-25 Thread FreeFall
try: perl -ne '$line=$_;END{print $line}' yourfile On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 19:09:50 +0530 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi , I am a perl newbie. Can someone suggest a perl command line snippet that will print the last n lines of a file. thanks in advance. regards, Kaushik Notice:

Re: Perl Newbie Question

2004-05-18 Thread James Edward Gray II
On May 18, 2004, at 1:10 PM, Perl Mail User wrote: Hello All, I have a question, I am looking to read the name of the file that I am passing as an argument to the perl script through the while () part of the script. You're looking for the $ARGV variable. It contains the filename you need. Hope

RE: Perl Newbie Question

2004-05-18 Thread Bob Showalter
Perl Mail User wrote: Hello All, Hi. Providing a real name would be considered polite. Also, please choose a meaningful subject. I have a question, I am looking to read the name of the file that I am passing as an argument to the perl script through the while () part of the script. The

Re: Perl Newbie Question

2004-05-18 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 01:10:27PM -0500, Perl Mail User wrote: I have a question, I am looking to read the name of the file that I am passing as an argument to the perl script through the while () part of the script. $ARGV perldoc perlvar -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE : Perl Newbie Question

2004-05-18 Thread Jose Nyimi
-Message d'origine- De : Perl Mail User [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : mardi 18 mai 2004 20:10 À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : Perl Newbie Question Hello All, I have a question, I am looking to read the name of the file that I am passing as an argument to the perl script

RE: Perl Newbie question: How would you take keyboard input and run a shell scrip with that input?

2003-12-31 Thread Paul Kraus
I don't think you could be vaguer :) Very basic #!/usr/bin/perl # update.pl multiple options command line my @packages = @ARGV foreach (@packages){ system(packageexecutableforupdate); #with output captured My $output = `packageexecutableforupdate`; } Not tested of