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Automating system tasks with Perl – Part 2

Here is a more complicated example that I created for Expect. Set up the connection again.

        my $ssh = Net::SSH::Expect->new (
            host => "myserver.com",
            password=> 'pass87word',
            user => 'bnegrao',
            raw_pty => 1
       ...
			

A little more of buffer overflows

With out getting very technical there is a few things worth noting when referring to overflows. There is some programing languages that buffer overflows are more difficult then others.  An application written in a low level language like 'c' which gives the developer very fine control over the...

Parsing XML with regular expressions – Part 1

Many applications now have the ability to produce XML reports, while perl does have modules available to parse this information I find regular expressions are faster on extremely large data sets. A small example.

<date>
	<start>Thu Mar  4 23:27:03...