From garrett at scriptpro.com  Mon Nov  3 10:02:24 2003
From: garrett at scriptpro.com (Garrett Goebel)
Date: Mon Aug  2 21:31:11 2004
Subject: [Kc] November meeting
Message-ID: <71BEC0D4E1DED3118F7A009027B12028034C8FFC@EXCH_MISSION>

This month's meeting will be at Nov. 11th at 7PM at the Planet Sub on 50th
and Main.

You're mission should you choose to accept it, is to pick a command-line
one-liner and bring it to the meeting and/or post it to the list. 

I was thinking about this month's meeting, and thought perhaps it'd be
interesting to cover the perl command line options. The Chicago perl mongers
group recently did a field guide to it, which should be up on their website
shortly. I figure I'll track that or something similar down to provide as a
handout at the meeting.

So I'd like to see if people could bring (or post to the list) particularly
clever or interesting examples of things you can do from the command line
with perl. A quick google search on perl one-liners should give you a wide
assortment to choose from ;)

That said, I'd much rather people come without a one-liner than not come at
all. So don't feel obliged. 

The following is an example of what we might expect to see. Though it needed
be documented at all as long as you can explain what your one-liner does.


Example:

In place editing is as easy as -p -i -e

perl -p -i -e s/.../.../ filename

-p places an while loop around your script which automatically reads a line
from the <> diamond operator.

-i in place edit. Perl automatically removes or renames the input file and
opens and output file using the original name

-e eval. Evaluates a string of text from the command line.

<> diamond operator. Reads a single line from the files specified on the
command line

@ARGV magic array variable which holds the command line arguments

s/.../.../ a string substitution using regular rexpressions


To change all instances of the word 'foo' to 'bar' in the file fubar.txt...

perl -p -i -e s/foo/bar/ fubar.txt

  in effect becomes:

for my $file (@ARGV) {
  open IN "<$file";
  unlink $file;
  open OUT ">$file";
  while (my $line = <IN>) {
    $line =~ s/foo/bar/;
    print OUT $line;  
  }
  close IN;
  close OUT;
}

Under Windows, you are not allowed to read from an unlinked filehandle.
Conveniently, the -i command line option also allows you to specify the name
of an extension that the original file should be renamed with. So on Windows
you might instead have written:

perl -p -i.bak -e s/foo/bar/ fubar.txt


Normally you'd enclose the string of text to be evaluated in single
quotation marks. On Windows due to the limitations of the command shell you
must use double quotation marks. In our case, since no whitespace was
required in the eval text... no quotes were required.

Garrett

--
Garrett Goebel
IS Development Specialist

ScriptPro                   Direct: 913.403.5261
5828 Reeds Road               Main: 913.384.1008
Mission, KS 66202              Fax: 913.384.2180
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From garrett at scriptpro.com  Mon Nov  3 10:07:27 2003
From: garrett at scriptpro.com (Garrett Goebel)
Date: Mon Aug  2 21:31:11 2004
Subject: [Kc] new to list
Message-ID: <71BEC0D4E1DED3118F7A009027B12028034C8FFD@EXCH_MISSION>

casey hill wrote:
> just signed up...  anyone out there  :)

Welcome!

What brings you to this humble abode?

The list is fairly quite usually. Meeting announcements and the like. It'd
be nice so see more dialog and problem solving.

--
Garrett Goebel
IS Development Specialist

ScriptPro                   Direct: 913.403.5261
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From garrett at scriptpro.com  Mon Nov  3 10:11:13 2003
From: garrett at scriptpro.com (Garrett Goebel)
Date: Mon Aug  2 21:31:11 2004
Subject: [Kc] December Meeting?
Message-ID: <71BEC0D4E1DED3118F7A009027B12028034C8FFE@EXCH_MISSION>

Attendence is usually at its lowest in December.

Could I get a show of hands on who intends to be at the December meeting?

--
Garrett Goebel
IS Development Specialist 

ScriptPro                   Direct: 913.403.5261 
5828 Reeds Road               Main: 913.384.1008 
Mission, KS 66202              Fax: 913.384.2180 
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From garrett at scriptpro.com  Tue Nov 11 08:29:39 2003
From: garrett at scriptpro.com (Garrett Goebel)
Date: Mon Aug  2 21:31:11 2004
Subject: [Kc] Reminder: Meeting Tonight
Message-ID: <71BEC0D4E1DED3118F7A009027B12028034C902D@EXCH_MISSION>

Tonight's meeting will be at 7PM at the Planet Sub on 50th and Main. 

You're mission should you choose to accept it, is to pick a command-line
one-liner and bring it to the meeting and/or post it to the list.

I was thinking about this month's meeting, and thought perhaps it'd be
interesting to cover the perl command line options. The Chicago perl mongers
group recently did a field guide to it, which I'll provide as a handout at
the meeting.

So I'd like to see if people could bring (or post to the list) particularly
clever or interesting examples of things you can do from the command line
with perl. A quick google search on perl one-liners should give you a wide
assortment to choose from ;)

That said, I'd much rather people come without a one-liner than not come at
all. So don't feel obliged. 

The following is an example of what we might expect to see. Though it needed
be documented at all as long as you can explain what your one-liner does.


Example: 

In place editing is as easy as -p -i -e 

perl -p -i -e s/.../.../ filename 

-p places an while loop around your script which automatically reads a line
from the <> diamond operator. 

-i in place edit. Perl automatically removes or renames the input file and
opens and output file using the original name

-e eval. Evaluates a string of text from the command line. 

<> diamond operator. Reads a single line from the files specified on the
command line 

@ARGV magic array variable which holds the command line arguments 

s/.../.../ a string substitution using regular rexpressions 


To change all instances of the word 'foo' to 'bar' in the file fubar.txt... 

perl -p -i -e s/foo/bar/ fubar.txt 

  in effect becomes: 

for my $file (@ARGV) { 
  open IN "<$file"; 
  unlink $file; 
  open OUT ">$file"; 
  while (my $line = <IN>) { 
    $line =~ s/foo/bar/; 
    print OUT $line;  
  } 
  close IN; 
  close OUT; 
} 

Under Windows, you are not allowed to read from an unlinked filehandle.
Conveniently, the -i command line option also allows you to specify the name
of an extension that the original file should be renamed with. So on Windows
you might instead have written:

perl -p -i.bak -e s/foo/bar/ fubar.txt 


Normally you'd enclose the string of text to be evaluated in single
quotation marks. On Windows due to the limitations of the command shell you
must use double quotation marks. In our case, since no whitespace was
required in the eval text... no quotes were required.

Garrett 

-- 
Garrett Goebel 
IS Development Specialist 
ScriptPro                   Direct: 913.403.5261 
5828 Reeds Road               Main: 913.384.1008 
Mission, KS 66202              Fax: 913.384.2180 
www.scriptpro.com          garrett at scriptpro dot com 
  
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From whatever at davidnicol.com  Tue Nov 11 23:12:28 2003
From: whatever at davidnicol.com (david nicol)
Date: Mon Aug  2 21:31:11 2004
Subject: [Kc] DirDB 0.05 can now store hash references.
Message-ID: <1068613944.12784.13.camel@plaza.davidnicol.com>


Autovivified hash references, even.


$ perl 

use DirDB;
tie %D => DirDB, '/tmp/foodata';

$D{one}->{two}->{three}->{four}='five';

__END__


$ cat /tmp/foodata/one/two/three/four
five
$




Just what the world needs, another way to do `cp -R ...` or
`tar cf - ... |( cd ...;  tar xf -) `





-- 
david nicol / A thousand towers rise before me and I cannot climb them all.


From marsee at oreilly.com  Fri Nov 14 13:08:31 2003
From: marsee at oreilly.com (Marsee Henon)
Date: Mon Aug  2 21:31:11 2004
Subject: [Kc] Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, November 14
Message-ID: <LYRIS-2699015-15416-2003.11.14-11.08.33--kc#mail.pm.org@newsletter.oreilly.com>

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From marsee at oreilly.com  Tue Nov 25 18:07:42 2003
From: marsee at oreilly.com (Marsee Henon)
Date: Mon Aug  2 21:31:11 2004
Subject: [Kc] Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, November 25
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***VBScript or Perl? 
In the process of writing "Active Directory Cookbook," author and
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system administrators often face: whether to use VBScript or Perl.
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***Using Linux as a Small Business Internet Gateway 
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to set up Linux as an Internet gateway. Alexander Prohorenko explains
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***BZFlag 
Sometimes a demo program can spin out of control to take on a life of its
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simple-yet-clever online tank battle game. Howard Wen talks to the creator
and maintainer of BZFlag.
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***Handling Mixed Content in a Strongly Typed World 
Merge the line between data and text with XMLBeans.
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***WinFX: An All-Managed API
In Longhorn, Win32 will no longer be the principal API. It will, of
course, continue to be supported; 20-year-old DOS applications still run
on the latest version of Windows, and likewise, Win32 applications will
also continue to work for the foreseeable future. But just as DOS and
16-bit Windows applications were superseded by Win32 applications, so in
Longhorn will Win32 become the "old way" of doing things. In the first
edition of this new column by Ian Griffiths, he explains why an
all-managed API is a good thing.
http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/11/24/longhorn_01.htm

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***Panther Maintenance Tips 
Yes, Mac OS X is incredibly stable, but here's a comprehensive list of
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don't do any maintenance at all? Well, read on. That might change.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/11/21/maintenance.html


***Keynote's XML Connections 
For its Keynote application, Apple had created an XML syntax, APXL (short
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means you can build presentations outside of Keynote using data stored in
apps like FileMaker Pro and 4D. David Miller explains, and shows you how
to leverage this functionality.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/11/18/keynote.html

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***O'Reilly in the Comics
http://secretworldofnerds.com/atlas_nerd.jpg

Thanks to Art Payne (The Michigan Apple User Group) and Julie
Reynolds-Grabbe (NASA Ames Research Center--Mac Group) 
for sending this to me.


Until next time--

Marsee