MacPerl
MacPerl is just so useful that a copy is almost a must. Unless you intend to run MPW it is the best way
to get a powerful scripting language on your Mac, with the added benefit that all your learning on Mac Perl is useful running
Perl on your server, or vice versa; with a little care you can even run the same scripts on Linux and the Mac, the major
difference is that you don't pass arguments on a command line and the directory separator is different. MacPerl also comes
with a neat little tool called "Shuck" for reading the Perl documentation. I find Shuck so good at flicking between the various
pages that I use it even when I'm writing for Perl online.
The number of things I use MacPerl for is endless. Renaming files, deleting resource forks from image files, moving files.
I also use it to search file servers for documents. When you have multi-gigabyte file servers (that you don't want everyone
in the organisation to index for Find-By-Content) a short Perl script can open every document and search for occurences of
a regular expression.
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