An associative array is an array which uses strings as indices instead of integers. To see how associative arrays work, we’re going to look at both the Korn shell and Perl, though only the newest ...

There are a lot of really nice scripting languages available to Unix admins, but Perl is still one of my favorites for doing any work that involves regular expressions — any text that you can describe ...

Problem #1: The musicians recently had a camp out for jamming, but mostly eating. Our normal approach is to take a hard copy sign up sheet to a weekly class and obtain volunteers for chili, salad, ...