If you’re stuck with this error when trying to compile your own apps:
No rule to make target `/System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/config.h', needed by `Makefile'.
You will probably find that your Leopard installation is lacking some necessary files.
If you copy the files from your old(er) installation of perl (5.8.6) you should be able to get around this …
sudo cp /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/* /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/
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CPAN provides a great module for Perl called WWW:Mechanize. To quote CPAN:
WWW::Mechanize, or Mech for short, helps you automate interaction with a website. It supports performing a sequence of page fetches including following links and submitting forms. Each fetched page is parsed and its links and forms are extracted. A link or a form can be selected, form fields can be filled and the next page can be fetched. Mech also stores a history of the URLs you’ve visited, which can be queried and revisited.
This post details how to install the module as well as a quick example of automation that logs in to a secure website (MyThree.com.au) and extracts information (Bill Info & Data Usage) without ever having to leave your console …
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Amazon web services development domain have provided some neat perl code here such that you can simply put, get or delete objects inside an Amazon S3 storage bucket with something like this:
./s3curl.pl --id=[aws-access-key-id] --key=[aws-secret-access-key] -- http://s3.amazonaws.com/[bucket-name]/[key-name]
I modified the author’s code to make it a bit more win32 friendly, as it is no surprise that DPHOTO uses perl and a win32 platform to launch its tertiary backups.
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I often use a combination of cygwin with ssh to remotely manage windows servers, as I find this to be a quicker (and hopefully safer) method of access to my windows boxes. To that end, I often need to check windows application event logs. Typically you’d use the mmc, but all I want to do mostly is check the last 10 or 100 entries for things like break in attempts, or application warnings/failures etc.
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If you have the requirement to manipulate multitudes of input messages / log files / data templates with dynamic variables, you may be left wondering what is the best approach. One could argue in a friendly way for hours about which language is the best to achieve this outcome (almost like pc vs. mac), but since I often find myself working on mixed environments, you can’t go past perl one liners…
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