In the first part of this series, I explained how to install the necessary Perl modules to get us up and running. As a part of that process, the Oracle client software should have been installed as ...

There are three facts we can use to our advantage: The option variable ("optvar") stores the option name currently being processed (e.g., a, b, or c). When complete, getopts returns a number greater ...

I've talked before about how I am a lazy shell script programmer. It might be because I'm simply not a full-time professional software developer, and I don't even administer my own servers anymore—I ...