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Month: December 2010

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Pass Parameters to Perl Script

Pass Parameters to Perl Script Perl command line arguments stored in the special array called @ARGV. ARGV example Use $ARGV[n] to display argument. Use $#ARGV to get total number of passed argument to a perl script. For example, if your scriptname is foo.pl and you called script as follows: ./foo.pl one two three You can […]
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change passwd – permission denied (NIS)

Change passwd – permission denied (NIS) I setup a new NIS server and put the NIS source files in /var/yp/src/ The command line “passwd” gave me a permission denied when changing an NIS user’s password. A restart of yp fixed the problem for me.. Eventually I restarted NIS with: [bash] /usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypstop /usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypstart [/bash]
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Perl Split

Perl Split A very useful function in Perl is split, which splits up a string and places it into an array. The function uses a regular expression and as usual works on the $_ variable unless otherwise specified. The split function is used like this: [perl] $info = “Caine:Michael:Actor:14, Leafy Drive”; @personal = split(/:/, $info); […]
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