Open Source Perl Command Line Tools

SIGAR (System Information Gatherer and Reporter) is a cross-platform, cross-language library and command-line tool for accessing operating system and hardware level information in Java, Perl and .NET.

listadmin is a command line tool to manage Mailman lists and proccess queues, without the need to go to the Mailman web interface. It allows you to inspect messages or subscription requests, approve or discard them manually, or discard messages automatically when certain conditions are true. listadmin can also be configured to run out of cron to do routine cleaning.

Pieman is a command-line tool for managing personal information such as appointments, contacts, and tasks as well as other data such as notes and rc files. It is a portable pure-perl tool inspired by abook, devtodo, mutt, and pal, among others.

csv2ldif2 is a command line tool written in perl that converts CSV files to LDIF files. Features: Platform independent, reads from STDIN and writes to STDOUT, ignoring/selecting specific fields of the CSV, choosing a custom base-dn and much more!

If you manage phylogenetic data, Bio::NEXUS can make your life easier with a library and ready-made tools to manipulate and visualize NEXUS files (see http://www.molevol.org/nexplorer and http://search.cpan.org/dist/Bio-NEXUS/doc/Tutorial.pod).

A perlscript to build source code into programs, like make in purpose but without makefiles. Dynamically finds the dependencies at build time. Build in support for cross-platform programs, multi threaded compiling and distcc.

brn is a Perl-based command-line tool designed to ease the task of bulk renaming a large number of files. Started as a fork of the standard perl 'rename' tool, this project has since mutated significantly and is still undergoing rapid flux.

Command-line tool for database saving/displaying of instant messaging history written in Perl.

Oscar Notify is a small client<->server tool kit that implements the Oscar protocol. It allows you to connect to the ICQ/AIM network and use a small command line tool to send messages to a desired icq number. Works great with Nagios

PINCIS.pl (PIcs N-/C-terminal Inferred Substrates perl script) is a small, command line tool to designate and analyze PICS (Schilling et al., Nat. Protocols, 2011) data to gain the prime and non-prime site specificity of proteases. Thus, the script filters given peptide lists for library peptides (generated by the digestion protease in the proteomics workflow rather then the protease of interest) and prints out lists of inferred N- and C-terminal cleavage window extensions which can be concurrently used to generate cleavage specificity visualizations like the iceLogo (https://iomics.ugent.be/icelogoserver/create).

plsync is a lightweight remote file synchronization software much like rsync, written entirely in Perl. It features a Perl module, a command line tool and a Network daemon. It is aiming at low ressource consumption (RAM, CPU) and maximum portability.

This is a command-line tool, written in perl, that will convert from any database supported by perl DBI that also supports the information_schema standard to a MySQL database. It was written to convert from SQL Server to MySQL.

Command line tool 'subs' and its perl backend Subtitles.pm provide means for simple re-timing, joining, splitting, and format conversion of the subtitle files. Supported subtitle formats are .srt, .sub, .smi, and .idx.

WatchProxy is a Perl-based command line tool for benchmarking HTTP proxies and comparing the performance of the proxy to direct website access.

flickrsync is a command line tool written in Perl that aims to backup a complete directory structure to Flickr. It creates separate albums on Flickr based on the directory structure of the images. The main goal is to upload all pictures without requiring to move them to new folders. It relies on a few Perl packages mainly to handle HTTP requests and the file system. You should create Your own Flickr API keys, authentication token and add them to the application after You have downloaded it.

omnimysql is a command line tool for DBAs needing to issue ad-hoc queries against sharded data.

sympaadmin is a command line tool for administrating sympa mailing lists from the terminal, making it suitable for use over SSH, for example.

vmmonitor is a command line tool written in Perl used to monitor/locate VMware images in distributed environment. I am feeling great after using it to locate a VMware image. Try it!

Tool to migrate from one php version to another. Basically to make sure your php7.4 mods are installed in php8.1. Very early in development!

Multiple secure copy program (mscp/dscp) is a command-line tool for distributing files to multiple hosts at once.

NWBal is a command line tool for viewing your Natwest on-line banking balance and mini statements for all your accounts. It includes an email reporting facility for daily reports will soon have graphing capability for viewing historical data.

Handling with NGS tool configuration files is a real challenge for modern biologists and biotechnologist. To increase productivity, specificity and enhance the data processing, this tool provides a collection of commands already structured, leading the user in building the correct pipeline for the data he has to analyse. Pipeline Builder is a scripting tool for managing complex NGS analysis pipelines. It helps the user in composing NGS tool commands and composing his own analysis pipeline. It allows for data independent reproducible analysis creating protected environment which separates data from results through variable exportation. It comes as a command-line tool with a wizard menus and step-by-step tutorials. Pipeline Builder is written in Perl and it is crossplatform.

Slinspit is command line tool for creating slideshow from still photos. Includes several effects (titles, Ken Burns, blend etc.) and allows easy adding of new ones.

TagTools for Linux is a set of scripts which can be used to manipulate audio tags of various audio formats (MP3, OGG, FLAC etc). In fact, it is an implementation of the Audio::TagLib library (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Audio-TagLib/lib/Audio/TagLib.pm), and provides it with a command-line and dialog-based interface. TagTools should also work correctly with tags written in different codepages (utf8, cp1251 etc). The following scripts are included: tag2fname - this is a command-line tool to rename a number of files using the information extracted from audio tags in a specified format. tag2fname.dialog - a dialog-based interface for tag2fname. fname2tag - another command-line tool to convert file names into audiotags using a specified format. batchtag.dialog - a dialog-based tool for batch tag editing. tagedit.dialog - dialog-based tool for editing individual audio file tags.

A simple command line tool for editting and querying the global email alias file (usually /etc/aliases).