Title: April Meeting
Location: Pythian
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Description: Perl talk from Yanick Champoux, one of the Pythian SysAdmins Perl Hackers.

Synopsis:
One of Perls’ original raisons d’ętre was to be a sysadmin’s
best friend. Come and find out how to to leverage Perl for everyday
administrative tasks. We’ll cover

• Perl’s command-line arguments
• Well-known idioms for common situations
• Perl as ‘sed’
• Perl as ‘awk’
• Perl as ‘find’
• From one-liner to small script and back
• Leveraging TAP as a system monitoring tool
• Must-have modules
• And much more.

Who should be attending?

The audience is expected to have some familiarity with Unix-like
environments, as well as a basic understanding of Perl’s syntax.

At the end of this presentation, you’ll be able to

• laugh your way through the extraction the list of visitor IP addresses off an Apache logfile
• effortlessly find rogue files in a huge, maze-like directory structure.
• speedily encrypt/decrypt sensitive information off text files using the NCSA-grade rot-13 algorithm.
• and generally learn a few other dirty tricks that will come in useful on a daily basis.

Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2011-04-21
End Time: 21:30