I just wrote about a program I crafted some time ago... in Perl. Happy reading if you're interested into producing smarter tarballs! The article is here.

It seems that I'll never really be happy with blogging.

I'm working on a program that is thin wrapper around the execution of many other programs (mainly shells scripts) in Linux. The initial - and working! - choice was to use system():

my $code = system {$program} $program;

but it showed some limits soon...