mysql -H -u manager -ppwhere CLUB < name.sql Knowing this much, I figured that if I could come up with a means of issuing the HTML-producing command line from a Web interface, I'd be most of the way ...

Maybe I'm going about this the hard way, but here's what I'm trying to do:I need to run a script on a central workstation that will run a query on two remote MySQL boxes and return the output of ...

MariaDB includes a Perl script, mysql_secure_installation, that secures the server by changing several defaults: ...

Ok so I'm taking a class this semester entitled "Introduction to Web Programming"; we're currently learning Perl. Yesterday's assignment was a HTML form that asked two questions, then wrote the ...

I call my script, derived from many Perl command examples that I’ve encountered on the web, “listen”. Listen will open any (non-busy) port above 1023 for a normal user and any (non-busy ...

There are numerous ways to redirect standard error in a Perl script. You can redirect the output from one particular command, you can combine standard error with ...

A perl developer tends to know instinctively where it can be used appropriately and where it cannot. So as long as you avoid a one-size-fits-all approach to using it, you should fare well with perl.

To skip over blanks lines in a perl script, you have several choices. You could use a “next if /^$/” (skip if empty) command or a “next if /^s*$/” skip if empty or only white space.