My Problem With Perl

I’ve becoming increasingly frustrated with Perl.

html-encode

I had a need for a simple script to do HTML-encoding from the command line, so I wrote this simple Perl script. It relies on Gisle Aas‘ HTML::Entities module, which many Perl installations will already have (it’s a prerequisite for almost every application that does HTML encoding or URI handling).

signtree

signtree is a Perl script that takes a list of files and generates detached signatures for each one, using the GnuPG module. If there is already a signature file, then it is verified, and updated if the signature does not match. This is a development tool, not a mass verification tool.