So, November is NaNoWriMo ("National Novel Writing Month"), and I was hoping to get some serious writing done (instead of coding), but I kept being distracted with coding and random writing in various Internet forums. Well, hopefully this blog post will compensate a little for that.

In this post, I'd like to cover three command-line utilities - two of them new and were written by me, and one of them somewhat older, but also written in Perl.

The first utility is ="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G…