May 2012 Archives

File::LinkDir 1.02

File::LinkDir 1.02 is on its way to a CPAN mirror near you.

Two changes went into this release.
- The link-file script will be installed now. (Hinrik)
- The --add-ignore option works properly now. (Matt)

I'd like to thank Philip Durbin for pointing out that --add-ignore wasn't working properly.

perlbrew and tmux

Tonight I decided to install a variety of perl versions on the desktop PC where I run Arch Linux. Rather than kick them all off manually, I whipped up a bash script wrapper around perlbrew.

It loops through all of the versions of perl I'm interested in. It starts perlbrew with the specified options but backgrounded. When the build.log shows up, it sends keystrokes to tmux window 4 telling it tail the build.log and brings perlbrew to the foreground. When the install is finished, it sends keystrokes to tmux window 4 telling it stop tailing the file and moves the build.log out of the wa…

About Mr. Muskrat

user-pic I'm married with 2 girls. By day, I work as a Senior Design Engineer (full time Perl programmer) for EFJohnson Technologies, a Land Mobile Radio company, in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. By night, I play various games as the mood strikes me. (Lately it's CPAN smoke testing.)