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Monday, December 12, 2005

What is PERL?

Practical extraction and reporting language. Perl is a stable programming language. It is great for automating tasks, especially system administration chores. It is Open Source which means its free.

PERL was created by Larry Wall. PERL is sometimes called the duct-tape of the internet. PERL can be used with popular database programs and implemented into websites as well.

Where can you get PERL? http://www.perl.org/get.html

Website on PERL http://www.perl.org/news.html

The PERL Journal http://www.tpj.com/

Examle of PERL code:

A cheap alarm clock: perl -e ’sleep(120); while (1) { print "\a" }’

Random Password Generator

Steve Gibson writes great software. This tool will generate random passwords for you you, this is usefull for alot of things such as WPA and WEP.

https://www.grc.com/passwords

It gives you 3 choices!

63 random alpha-numeric characters (a-z, A-Z, 0-9)

63 random printable ASCII characters

64 random hexadecimal characters (0-9 and A-F):