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Reimplementation of Unix tools

[Dec 26, 2004] http://ppt.perl.org/ Do you know about the Perl Power Tools, at and mirrored various other places?

It is a great project to implement versions of standard Unix tools in pure Perl, so that they can run anywhere Perl does. Those utilities might be perfect for those who like me I prefer Unix/Linux as the development platforms, but Windows for my desktop. They also might be an alternative to the Cygwin stuff even for those who do not use Perl for own scripting. They should be the alternative for those who does use Perl. Once Perl has been installed the PPT stuff only needs to be copied somewhere and that directory added to the PATH. You can also learn some great Perl coding tricks by reading the PPT utilities. Thanks for the anonymous feedback to the Softpanorama for this info.

cron.pl A simple emulation for the Unix cron utility. Written by Scott McMahan.

DNS Tools  dns_tree is a command-line-based front-end to dig.

It replaces the several dig invocations necessary to fetch a zone, and it formats the output in a somewhat sensible hierarchical style (a tree). dns_browse is a GUI front-end to dns_tree. It allows point-and-click DNS browsing and makes it easy to expand/compress hierarchies in one or more DNS zones. dns_tree requires dig and Perl 5.002 or later. dns_browse requires Tk-4.2 or later.