Ever written the occasional Perl script and wanted to insert the current date and time into a MySQL database? Here is the function to do it. This works for a column of type ‘datetime’. 1 2 3 4 5 6 # function to return the current time in mysql format sub mysql_now() { my($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday, $yday,$isdst)=localtime(time); [...]
In the course of running various grep(1) combination to find various defects in source files I ran into inherent grep(1) difficulties. It seems that the regular expression syntax in grep(1) is very limited and so it’s better to use perl to solve these issues as it’s regular expression support is fantastic. A small script can [...]