this might not even be cool, but it started as a "I bet you can't do that as a a one-liner" from a cow-worker.

we wanted to turn our usernames into email addresses for our domain, from the NIS database.
It isn't entirely in perl, but it is pretty useful for me :)

ypcat passwd | awk -F: '{print $1}' | perl -p -e' ; chomp; print "$_\@
+domain.local > oneliner.out
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hope this helps someone else out there....
stevenrh