To communicate with MySQL via Perl, use the DBI and DBD-MySQL modules. With Red Hat 8.0, just install perl-DBD-MySQL-2.1017-3 and perl-DBI-1.30-1 off of the CDs. Why would you want to do such a thing? Well, say you had a tab delimited text file: sam 33 red sarah 32 blue ed 23 black russell 13 yellow […]