Archive for July, 2006

Doing the Perl curl

Thursday, July 27th, 2006

A while back I wrote a post about a ftp shell script. A number of people told me I should use curl instead. Here is one I wrote using both perl and curl to move some files from a site. I start with a list of file names. They don’t have the .pdf extension in […]

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Sorting file names with Perl

Monday, July 24th, 2006

I had to sort directories of pdf files that had identical names except for the last characters before the extension.pdf. Perl has a nice built in sort routine, but when I used it to sort like this:
@sortedlist = sort @listOfFiles;
I would end up with filenames in sort order for the most part except 10 would […]

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