For as much flack as Perl gets as a language, I constantly find myself returning to it to whip up small but effective utilities for text processing and regular expressions. Over time, I built up a small scratch pad of tiny scripts and one liners that I would frequently reference to inspect text files, cut and tidy up data, and do a little housekeeping across files and directories. Going over some old files the other day, I realized that these little one liners really came in handy more than a few times, so I figured I’d share some here.