"And thanks for the alias tip. I will have to park that one away for the time being because as useful as Perl one-liners are, I don't think I'm quite ready to use them that frequently."

I have aliases set up such that they're always available, regardless of frequency of usage. In ~/.bashrc, I have: 

...
if [ -f "${HOME}/.bash_aliases" ]; then
    . "${HOME}/.bash_aliases"
fi
...

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And ~/.bash_aliases has lines like this: 

...
alias vi='vim'
alias view='vim -R'
...
alias perle='perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -Mautodie=:all -MCarp::Always -E
+'
alias perlb='perl -MO=Deparse,-p -e'
...
alias apache_up='/usr/sbin/apachectl start'
alias apache_down='/usr/sbin/apachectl stop'
...

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You may need to adjust to suit whatever shell you're using; however, the basic principle should be applicable to any UNIX-like system. I use this with Linux for $work; with Cygwin for personal, home use; and, up until a year or so ago, with macOS (formerly Mac OS X).

— Ken

In reply to Re^3: Pointers and References by kcott
in thread Pointers and References by Leudwinus

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