Bill Ward, Making Your Life Easier with Perl

Whether you're updating a directory full of symbolic links or making bulk edits to a group of text files, or any other tedious manual task, there is a myriad of opportunities on Linux for automation via scripting in languages such as Perl. In this talk Bill will review some useful tips and techniques for automating tasks under Linux, revealing key aspects of the Perl language, and features such as regular expressions, along the way. Learn how to identify and install Perl modules, including using your Debian or RPM packaging system to keep them up to date. No prior Perl knowledge is required.

Bill Ward has been programming in Perl since 1993 in the system administration and Web development fields. He has been teaching Perl since the late 1990's, first at De Anza College and later as his own company, Bay View Training. He also works at Oracle as a software architect in the Infrastructure Systems Development group. He was the founder of PenLUG in 2003. His company is offering Perl training classes open to the public in October in Sunnyvale, CA, and in November in Dallas, TX, and he is available for private Perl coaching or on-site training classes.

Slides

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