Recent content by mxstein

I've dowloaded make-3.80-sol9-sparc-local.gz from sunfreeware. After dowloading i gunzip'd it and did a pkgadd -d on the make package. From reading the INSTALL file I next tried to configure it by doing ./configure but I get the error ./configure not found. I've tried running ./configure from...

Is there a way to add paths to @INC? I downloaded GDBM_File from cpan and it isn't in my @INC path so it can't find it to use it. Tried moving GDBM_File into one of my @INC paths but it still can't find it.

Ihave 42 servers that are basically identical. It seems almost everyday I have a file that I need to put on each server. I'd like to be able to automatically ftp a file from one machine to all 42 but have been unsuccessful in writing one. Does anybody have an example of a script that handles...

I read that if you download gdbm you need to reinstall perl or do the configure over to get it to work. Does anyone know if this is true. I have installed gdbm and i can't get GDBM_File to work.

still getting same error

When I run the command perl -s 'use GDBM_File;' I get an error can't locate GDBM_File.pm in @INC. I have installed gdbm-1.8.3-sol9-sparc-local and gd-2.0.33-sol9-sparc-local but I still get this error. Does anyone know what I should do to get the GDBM_File module to work. I don't even know if I...

I would like to store the output of an awk command into a variable to be used later. I have a file called "names" This file has the data below first last cuid awk '{print $2 ; }' names will list "last" I'd like to store that in a variable called last like below but it doesn't work last='awk...