Questions tagged [perl]
Perl is a powerful, high level programming language. Questions about Perl should be limited to the Perl development environment, running Perl, or using Perl to automate tasks on your computer.
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How to pass bash variables (passwords) to IRSSI config file?
I'm using IRSSI and I wonder how can I pass my IRC channel's passwords to the IRSSI config file (~/.irssi/config) without writing them directly in the file.
In Mutt I've an awk command that queries a ...
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How to rename a perlbrew installed version
I installed Perl 5.32 with the name perl-5.32.0
$ perlbrew list
* perl-5.32.0
The installation was updated with perlbrew upgrade-perl and I now have 5.32.1
$ perl --version
This is perl 5, version ...
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How do I model a Perl class with "::" in StarUML?
In StarUML, how can I model a Perl class which uses :: in its name? It doesn't allow :: in the class name, reporting:
Element name cannot contain "::"
Is there a way to work around this limitation?...
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Clear previous command output (not full screen)
Example
This is on the terminal screen:
user@host ~ % ls
dir1
dir2
dir3
user@host ~ % whoami
user
user@host ~ % date
Wed May 24 16:25:26 -03 2023
user@host ~ % [CURSOR IS HERE]
I'm trying to ...
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Python and Perl not recognized in cmd even after adding in environment
It was fine yesterday, but it suddenly stopped working today.
Both my perl and python were not recognized in cmd. I read as much as i can online for the answers and follow the instruction. I have ...
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How to debug mod_perl compilation errors during start and reload of Apache httpd 2.4?
I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with httpd 2.4 and mod_perl2 to host a PerlAuthenHandler for some web app. It has been 14.04 LTS before and was upgraded some weeks ago.
This works in general but ...
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Xcode: create new custom templates and code snippets?
I'm trying to tame Xcode for writing things in Perl. Naturally, I'd like to use the "IDE features", not just the text editor. That includes Perl-specific templates, which brings me to the question:
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Clean up filenames using data from a text file
I need to clean up a bunch of folder file names. Possibly even the file titles as well. I was currently using this Perl script to do so but I ran into some problems.
If the file name already has ...
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Apache "70007 timeout errors"
I'm sporadically getting Apache 70007 timeout errors from (I think) Perl CGI scripts. I thought the problem was my scripts were exceeding the Apache's TimeOut value, but I wrote a sleep script that ...
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Installing ffmpeg (namely fdk-aac) on cPanel server causes issues with perl threads
Basically, I'm trying to install FFMPEG on a cPanel server. I'm able to get everything installed and working (tested using ffmpeg -v) except for libfdk-aac. I can do the git clone and everything ...
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Install perl module from rpm file
I have a perl issue and obviously I'm not a perl expert. I can not use CPAN.
I've installed File::Pid using a rpm, or I tried. I downloaded perl-File-Pid-1.01-3.el5.noarch.rpm (and the perl-Class-...
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Log-off Scripts in Windows 7
I have Public machines that I need to run log-off scripts, which are in Perl. I want the script to run for a Standard user. It seems that the UAC is blocking this from happening. So, I have turned the ...
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Cygwin Perl autodie 'not located'
I have Cygwin installed (with its native Perl support). However, on running a make file supplied by a third-party, I get the following error:
Can't locate autodie.pm in @INC (you may need to install ...
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perl extended regex pattern with (condition) behaves wrong, what I do false?
I use perl --version
perl 5, version 36, subversion 0 (v5.36.0) built for i686-linux-gnu-thread-multi-64int (with 52 registered patches
I have used following test lines with these results:
perl -we '$...
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How do I substitute the entire line in a text file for a portion of text in the line?
For example, I would like to make:
>sid|RSV210|ref|NC_001803.1| SM:RSV210
turn into
>RSV210
I believe that I could use sed to do this by the following
"s/>.*/>RSV210/"
but I ...
