My signature had a line in <pre> that was very long and messing up the PM layout for some. Good excuse to use WWW::Mechanize again :) 

#!/usr/bin/perl -wl
use strict;
use Carp;
use WWW::Mechanize;
use HTML::TreeBuilder;
{
    my $i;
    sub x { shift() ? print ++$i : croak }
}

my $sig = q[

Juerd
# { site => '<a href="http://juerd.nl/" target="_blank"><font color="#
+800000">juerd.nl</font></a>', plp_site => '<a href="http://plp.juerd.
+nl/" target="_blank"><font color="#800000">plp.juerd.nl</font></a>', 
+do_not_use => '<a href="mailto:spamcollector_perlmonks@juerd.nl" targ
+et="_blank"><font color="#800000">spamtrap</font></a>' }
];

x my $agent = WWW::Mechanize->new;

x $agent->get('http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=login');

x $agent->submit_form(
    form_number => 2,
    fields => {
        user   => 'Juerd',
        passwd => '',  # Guess =)
    },
    button => 'sexisgood',
);

x $agent->get('http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=6364&user=Juerd')
+;

my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_content($agent->content);

for ($tree->look_down(id => 'writeups')->look_down(_tag => 'a')) {
    x my $href = $_->attr('href');
    x my ($node_id) = $href =~ /node_id=(\d+)/;
    next if $node_id < 253475;  # 253475 was the first node with the n
+ew sig

    x $agent->get($href);

    x $agent->form_number(2);
    
    my $post = eval {
        $agent->current_form->value('note_doctext');
    } or next;
    
    $post =~ s[<pre>(.*?)</pre>][$sig]s;
    x $agent->submit_form(
        form_number => 2,
        fields      => { note_doctext => $post },
        button      => 'sexisgood',
    );
}

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There were less than 50 nodes to be fixed, so I didn't have to fetch other pages. And this script only works for notes :)

Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }

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