Perl Training Australia - Perl for System Administration

Trainer:	Paul Fenwick
Length:	1 day
Notes:	Course notes
Target Audience:	This course is applicable to system administrators who want to learn Perl to make their system administration tasks easier. Knowledge of basic programming concepts such as loops, conditionals and variables will prove helpful.

This course is still in beta. It may optionally include a half-day introduction to Perl (covering variables, conditionals, looping constructs, subroutines, file input/output and other basics. This is not included in the 1 day duration listed above.

You will learn:

about Perl's powerful regular expression capabilities and how to apply them to your problem;
invoking shell commands, capturing a program's output, using exec and sending signals;
using Perl's command-line to reduce code;
copying, moving and renaming files; file locking and temporary files; changing permissions; creating, reading and removing directories;
sending and filtering mail;
security considerations including taint; environment variables and set-user-id programs;
log file processing and filtering uninteresting data;
sending data to IRC, AOL instant messages, speech engines, web browsing and scraping, working with LDAP;