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I love Perl. I've been using it since 1989. It seems like half my
professional life has been spent coding in Perl for one reason or
another. One of the things I like best about the language is the
worldwide community of Perl programmers that make their best efforts
available free of charge. If that community weren't there, I might
have spent 100% of my work time coding Perl, or maybe 0%.
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I used to feel a little ashamed that I had taken so consistently and
profitably from this community without giving anything back. In
recent years however, I have pushed a couple things out the door to
be used, abused or laughed at as the case might be.
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The first script I did this with is riofill which is a script based on riolist by Ron Forrester. In
combination with the Snowblind Alliance's rio utility, riofill allows you
to upload a random selection of MP3s to your Diamond Rio PMP300. A
local man page for riofill is here.
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This is a rather ambitious attempt to write an object-oriented framework
for Unix system administration that hides architectural differences between
hosts running FreeBSD, Solaris and Linux. I'm not actively hacking on this
now. The project web site is here.
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This is a pair of Perl scripts that provide an audited root shell in
conjuction with sudo.
The project web site is here.
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