Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. It was originally developed by Larry Wall as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier, over a period with support from open source community, it has evolved and matured to be used for ...

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/bin/sh: ./check-dependencies.pl: not found — but check-dependencies.pl exists!

I'm trying to build Moses, but when I run make I get the following output: minakshi@minakshi-Vostro-3500:~/Desktop/working-dir/moses/scripts$ make release # Compile the parts make all make[1]: ...
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Is there any alternative to grep's -A -B -C switches (to print few lines before and after )?

grep -A 2 -B 3 prints 2 lines after the grep string and prints 3 lines before. grep -C 3 prints 3 Lines before and 3 lines after Unfortunately, the grep I'm using does not support these ...
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Is there a way to make perl -i not clobber symlinks?

A friend of mine points out that if you do: perl -pi.bak -e 's/foo/bar/' somefile when "somefile" is actually a symlink, perl does just what the docs say it will do: It does this by renaming ...
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How to filter IPv4 and IPv6 addresses?

echo "1.1.1.1" | awk '/[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*/ {print $1}' How can I filter IPv4 addresses in a script, and how can I filter IPv6 addresses. I mean more precisely then this so the oneliner ...
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Perl script, do cd on terminal

In Script to change current directory (cd, pwd) it is shown how to run a bash script that changes terminal directory. But how do i run a perl script that runs a bash script that changes terminal ...
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perl-get input, check conditions

cat input1.txt ##gff-version 2 ##source-version geneious 5.6.4 Xm_ABL1 Geneious CDS 1 168 . + . Name=Xm_ABL1;created by=User;modified ...
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How race conditions affect reads and writes (that happen at the same time)

Let's say I open a file a for reading. What if an application, let's call it aWriter writes to this file in random intervals. Are there any possibilities of me receiving improper file contents if I ...
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Error trying to call find from perl

use warnings; use File::Find; my $srceDir = "//mnt/Share_Drive/Verizon PM&T/Capture Files/"; opendir(DIR, $srceDir) or die "Can't open $srceDir: $!"; my @files = (find -type f -newermt "12 Feb ...