http://search.cpan.org/~gariev/Google-ProtocolBuffers-0.08/lib/Google/ProtocolBuffers.pm#MessageClass-%3Eencode%28$hashref%29
http://search.cpan.org/~gariev/Google-ProtocolBuffers-0.08/lib/Google/ProtocolBuffers.pm#MessageClass-%3Eencode%28$hashref%29
A great post for forking and threading applications in Perl: https://wiki.bc.net/atl-conf/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=20548191
http://webdevelopment.developersnetwork.com/Articles.asp?Article=143
Perl for SysAdmin: http://builder.com.com/5100-6372-1044668.html
Network programming using Perl: http://www.metalshell.com/view/source/36/ [resolve a hostname into an ip address or an ip address into a hostname.]
Following is an excellent Perl tutorial, keep referring to in times of need.
Following is a way to use the crypt() command to be used in generating a password using the useradd method:
perl -e 'print crypt("password", "salt"),"\n"'
http://www.jeteye.com/jetpak/e251d8b0-3b33-1029-86c1-00304880af2f/
perl -e ’s/string to be replaced/replaced string/g’ -p -i.bak