in reply to System utilities with Perl

The nmap utility may already do what you want, unless you're interested in re-writing this utility from scratch, in Perl, as a learning exercise.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

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Re^2: System utilities with Perl
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 05, 2004 at 21:07 UTC
    I want to do it to learn from, I don't want to use real system commands that are there. I want to do it via Perl.