Looked at apis for writing word documents and was scared away. Chris devers does this have something to do with perl programming. Ive been searching the web but cant find much\ninstruction for applying patches. Traditionally, perl was developed as a means to bind together various unix. Perl for system administration is aimed at all levels of administrators on the unix. Filebasename a core module to portably extract the basename, the dirname, the suffix and other file paths parsing. Perl is probably the most friendly to unix system administrators scripting language and other. Useful modules for files and directories handling are. Perl for unix system administration perl training israel. Automating system administration with perl second edition automating system administration with perl david n. Filepath a core module to create or remove directory trees portably. If one of these files is found, its size and location is stored in a hash of hashes whose inner key is the path to the file with a value that is the size of that file. What can software vendors do to make the lives of sysadmins a little easier. Ryans wiki my notebook for all things computer and.
It sounds like you need to talk to your sysadmins to find out how to print to particular printers. Name pdf create create pdf files description pdf create allows you to create pdf documents using a large number of primitives and emit the result as a pdf file stream. Current working directory, absolute path for files. A plea to software vendors from sysadmins 10 dos and donts. Sysadmins and developers issue this command quite often. In the container space, this command can help determine.
We assume these files can be deleted without checking for their source file perhaps not a safe assumption. Perlbeginners how to print pdf files to particular. Once you know the command to use, you should be able to wrap it in a system command in a perl script. Filespec a core module to handle file and directory paths portably. You may have come to the wrong place, but its hard to tell. Perl for system administration perl training australia. Perl medic transforming legacy code addison wesley 2004. We want to craft the commands to be executed in a text editor or generate them via perl, python, or powershell. Do have a configuration file that is an ascii file, not a binary blob. Being able to use a template file would nice, from an mvc perspective, but if the best module doesnt support that, im ok. If you are a linux sysadmin who writes occasional perl code or a developer who. Documents can have several pages, a table of content, an information section and many other pdf elements.
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