Replace one string by another in all file found by find.

find . -name *whatyouwant* -exec perl -pi.bak -e 's/TEXT_TO_REPLACE/TEXT_TO_REPLACE_IT_WITH/g' {} \;

Just a joke – no offense intended…

perl -e '$a="etbjxntqrdke";$a=~s/(.)/chr(ord($1)+1)/eg;print $a'

If you are getting a ‘Can’t locate CPAN.pm in @INC’ error while opening cpan, you have not installed Bundle::Cpan. You can do that without Cpan – using yum

yum install perl-CPAN

A perl script to stop crond if mysqld is down

#!/usr/bin/perl

# See if MySQL server is alive or not
$mysql_status = `/etc/init.d/mysqld status`;
print "MySQL Status: $mysql_status\n";
unless($mysql_status =~ /running/) {
	print "Stopping Cron... ";
	#If MySQL is not running, kill the crond
	$cron = `/etc/init.d/crond stop`;
	print $cron;
}

print "\n";

Don’t show the untracked files in git status

git status | perl -pe "exit if(/Untracked files\:/)"

This one command will fetch and display the latest sensex figure in Linux. This command basically downloads a page, locates a specific line, and then extract just the necessary portion from it. I am sure you could find other uses for this method.

curl -s "http://money.rediff.com/money/jsp/markets_home.jsp" |grep ''|head -n1|perl -pe 's/^.+\">([\d\,\.]+)<\/TD>.+$/\1/i;'

Print a file until a regular expression is matched.

cat file.txt | perl -pe "exit if(/Thats all/)"

Remove all empty directories within the current directory

find . -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;
perl -MFile::Find -e"finddepth(sub{rmdir},'.')"

Delete Empty Directories
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The command to convert all \n in a file to another string – very useful for list code generation.

perl -ne 's/\\n/\',\'/g;print;' file.txt>new.txt

This command will list all the files a folder without their extensions. Comes handy when doing shell scripting

perl -e 'while(<*.*>){s/\..{3}$//i;print "File \"$_\"\n";}print "\n";'