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My Configurations My system is configured as follows: Download ActivePerl Download windows MSI version from http://www.activestate.com/store/activeperl/download Install ActivePerl Double click on the downloaded file to install it. By default it…
Linux is the most widely used variant of Unix. Linux is a very powerful operating system which has been around for more than 30 years. Initially, it was primarily been…
tar command The tar command is used to collate collections of files into one larger file. Creating archives Suppose we have directory xdir containing many files, we use the following…
When using Apache and Perl on Windows, it is common to get Couldn’t spawn child process error. The solution is very simple. Verify that you have using the correct directive…
Suppose I need to change the file extensions of certain files in a directory. The directory address specified by the user is read into the script in line 2. This…
Finding files on unix and linux Find is an extremely useful command for finding files. It searches based a specified condition at a specified directory and descends into all subdirectories…
yum stands for ‘Yellowdog Updater Modified’. YellowDog Linux is a rpm based distribution of Linux created for the ppc architecture. Fedora Core took up this package manager as of Fedora…
Passing arrays by value and reference The difference between passing by value and passing by reference is that you when pass by value, you are passing a copy of the…
Following a program which echos whatever you type in the command line. argc is the count of the number of command-line arguments. argv is array of vectors. Each word is…
Mathematical formulas can be written in HTML without installing special fonts, MathML, or inserting images. This article shows how this can be done. Symbol Entity Description ¬ ¬ not sign…