test of list (1 message)
This is a test, please ignore-- Sean Dague sean@dague.nethttp://dague.net/seanAIM: sdague01There is no silver bullet. Plus, werewolves make better neighbors thanzombies, and they tend to keep the...
View Article[jamesbias@nerds2go.com: command request.] (3 messages)
----- Forwarded message from James Bias <jamesbias@nerds2go.com> -----To: casey@geeknest.comSubject: command request.From: James Bias <jamesbias@nerds2go.com>Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 21:14:08...
View ArticleRe: VI in Perl (3 messages)
On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 08:38:36PM -0700, Dmitri wrote:: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vip: : VI in Perl is my pet project. Does it qualify as: a Power Tool?Well, it isn't on the list but, it would...
View ArticleRe: Perl Power Tools (1 message)
David,That's great. This next week I am going to be away at Ottawa LinuxSymposium, and I believe Casey is at The Perl Conference. As long as Caseyhas no objections, we'll hook you up next week when we...
View ArticleFwd: PPT bits I've done (1 message)
----- Forwarded message from Dexter Coffin <idnopheq@perlmonk.org> -----Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 14:27:09 -0700From: Dexter Coffin <idnopheq@perlmonk.org>To: sf@dague.netSubject: PPT bits...
View ArticleMy meeting with Tom (1 message)
I should have told you guys that I spoke with Tom about the PPT, atthe Open Source Convention. He has no problems with our taking overthe PPT.Our conversation also covered some ideas he had for the...
View Articlenew sort(1) (1 message)
http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/File/File-Sort-1.00.tar.gzIt's in eg/sort.pudge.PL.First new version in a long time. No major changes, just some bugfixes and cleanup.-- Chris Nandor...
View Articlecron (1 message)
I recently implemented an extended featureful cron that oughtto be highly platform independent. I was wondering of I couldget it into the PTT?http://pthbb.org/software/crond/0.82/ is...
View ArticlePPT (1 message)
Is it live or is it dea (I found the posts on p5p after Simon Cozensinferred it had passed away)? And is it any relation to the PPT projecton Sourceforge?I've been implementing cron in perl and running...
View Articletcgrep v1.7 (2 messages)
Here's something I've had knocking around for, hmm, looks like a littleover five years. I'm afraid I have no original to diff against, andactually, the last time I poked around I think I found a...
View Article[ANNOUNCE] Perl Power Tools v0.13 - The Resurrection (1 message)
And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth." And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin....
View Articlexargs quits on non-zero status (1 message)
The existing xargs executes a command with this line:system(@run) == 0 or exit($? >> 8);which means that the command exits when any commandreturns a non-zero status. This doesn't emulate theusual...
View Articlepatch command fails on Windows (1 message)
All I can get from the ppt patch on Windows are these errors:Hunk #1 failed--Couldn't find anywhere to put hunk.I've tracked it down to line ending confusion (crlf vs lf in acouple of conflicting...
View Article"cat -v considered harmful" link (1 message)
On your page http://search.cpan.org/src/CWEST/ppt-0.13/html/whence.htmlyou ask for more information on Pike's "cat -v Considered Harmful"paper. You can find a paper derived from this talk at the URL...
View ArticlePPT v0.14: Now With Permanent Residence! (1 message)
Welcome to the new home of the Perl Power Tools. http://ppt.perl.orgVersion 0.14 fixes a nasty bug that the default 'make manifest'unleashed on me and now the distribution is actually complete!...
View Articlefile2c (1 message)
Welcome back, ppt!I figure why not go for the low-hanging fruit, so here's file2c. Let meknow about desired changes & stuff. The 'shift||""' is ugly, but Iwanted to run under -w.Without a UNIX box...
View ArticlePPT: number (1 message)
It would be nice to have sample expected output for all these commands,especially for those of us not using UNIX on a regular basis. Maybe youcould convince someone who wants to help the project but...
View ArticlePPT v0.14 file.slay vs File::Type (1 message)
I noticed while testing ppt-0.14/src/file/file.slayfrom http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/C/CW/CWEST/ppt-0.14.tar.gzthat it is trying to import functionsthat are not (no longer?) exported from...
View ArticleArchive (1 message)
This is great.I missed the original announcement about the restart of the enginesbut I am really happy that you guys picked it up.A note, maybe adding a link on http://ppt.perl.org/who.html to...
View ArticleScripts for 'who', 'whoami', 'users', 'logname' (1 message)
Hello.Here are some scripts which I wrote in the past fewdays.Please take a look and give me some feedback.-- Ashish
View Article[belg4mit@MIT.EDU: PPT] (1 message)
----- Forwarded message from Jerrad Pierce <belg4mit@MIT.EDU> -----Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 11:32:37 -0400Message-ID: <41641015.405255B8@mit.edu>From: Jerrad Pierce...
View ArticleContribution to the Perl Power Tools: file2c (1 message)
Hi ppt@perl.org,You may find attached a recently coded version of file2c as my contribution to the Perl Power Tools. I would be pleased if the code would pass all your tests and you would publish it on...
View ArticleInvitation (1 message)
Ashish Mukherjee has invited you to join hi5. By joining hi5, you will be connected to Ashish and all of Ashish's friends.hi5 is the place where friends meet. You can use hi5 for the following...
View ArticleMajor revision of fortune (1 message)
Dear Perl Power Tools Programmers,I was so glad to hear about the Perl Power tools project, and especiallythat fortune was a part of it. When I saw Theo Van Dinter's strfile, Igot really excited...
View Articlemail.pl (1 message)
There is another mail.pl athttp://examples.oreilly.com/progintemail/mail.plsub usage { print <<ENDOFUSAGE; mail.pl [-u] [-h] [-f from] [-m mailhost] [-p port] [-s subject] [-c cc-addr] [-b...
View ArticlePPT license (2 messages)
What is the license of the PPT code? In particular, can Ire-use this: http://ppt.perl.org/commands/chmod/SymbolicMode.pmin a GPL program?-- ``Computer games don't affect kids. I mean, if Pac-Man...
View Articleregarding mtime (3 messages)
I am using ppt in my windows box . When i tried to use "mtime" option in "find" command i could only specify the units as days but i want to specify the mtime units as hours. eg: find / -mtime -1 this...
View Articlebeen testing various ppt submissions with activestate perl, some work, some...
Hi; I've ad-hoc been testing various ppt submissions with activestate perl,some work, some don't - how to submit details?Thanks,Ken
View Articleis this project alive? (2 messages)
I read an article mentioning PPT, and it sounded pretty cool... but I wentto the website, and it doesn't look very.... active.Is there any one on this list? is there an archive of posts?Thanks.
View Articlenroff (1 message)
Half-expecting this to bounce.Years ago I submitted this for the power tools project but it was dropped.I stumbled across this now and I'm trying again - I think it's amusing.See attached.Thanks.
View Articlewhoami implementation (4 messages)
#!/usr/bin/perl# whoami for PPT# Public domain.# by David Koenig.print getpwuid($>)."\n";__END__=head1 NAMEwhoami - display effective user ID=head1 SYNOPSISwhoami=head1 DESCRIPTIONThe...
View Articlemaintainer (2 messages)
Is anyone still maintaining this project? I can help if you need someone.
View Articlesh port (3 messages)
I might get a port of `sh` in a couple days; that should make life abit easier for all of us :) (and Tom Christiansen ;) )I'm probably just going to translate the C line-by-line at first--amore elegant...
View Articlesh progress (4 messages)
I've written chdir and pwd backends that look at the physicalsettings, as well as an option parser. I'll have code soon, but bewarned that I had to use a for(;;) loop, not a foreach, because Ineeded an...
View Articlemaking a tsort subroutine that can be plugged into a program (1 message)
not being a perl guru I had a lot of trouble underastanding the tsort example at;http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/CWEST/ppt-0.14/html/commands/tsort/index.htmlhowever with the help of several cups of...
View Articlefactor bug (2 messages)
Hello --Not sure anyone is tracking this, but the factor program at:http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/CWEST/ppt-0.14/html/commands/factor/factor.feinbergdoes indeed have a bug. Try:factor 3599and it will...
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