Open Source Perl Libraries

Hacker Scripts is a cheeky collection of small automation scripts and language ports collected under the tagline “Based on a true story.” The repository gathers playful utilities (originally shell and Ruby scripts) that automate short, real-world tasks — for example, sending a quick “late at work” text when SSH sessions are active, firing off an automated “I’m sick / working from home” email on certain mornings, or even talking to a networked coffee machine to start brewing at precisely the right moment. The README explains the origin story and highlights several canonical scripts and provides usage notes such as required environment variables and cron examples for scheduling. Contributors have provided implementations and ports in many languages and folders (shell, Ruby, Python, Node, Perl, PowerShell, Go, Java, etc.), and the project explicitly welcomes pull requests that add additional language implementations.

RE2/J is a high-performance regular expression engine implemented in pure Java as a port of Google’s C++ RE2 library. Unlike traditional regex engines such as Java’s java.util.regex, PCRE, or Perl’s implementation—which rely on backtracking and can suffer from catastrophic exponential runtimes—RE2/J guarantees linear-time matching relative to input size. It achieves this efficiency by simulating all possible matches in a single pass using a nondeterministic finite automaton (NFA), ensuring predictable and safe performance even with complex patterns. This makes RE2/J ideal for applications that must handle user-supplied regular expressions securely without the risk of denial-of-service through regex backtracking. While it omits some advanced features like backreferences and certain Java regex options, it supports the vast majority of practical expressions used in production code. RE2/J thus provides a reliable, safe, and scalable alternative for developers.

FLoM is a free open source distributed lock manager that can be used to synchronize shell commands, scripts and custom developed software. When used in a shell environment, FLoM manages process synchronization in the same way that "nice" manages process prioritization. Shell commands, scripts and custom programs can be synchronized inside a single system or in a network of IP connected systems. FLoM supports different types of abstract resources: simple, numeric, set, hierarchical and transactional sequence. libflom, the library shipped with FLoM, allows you to develop your own application using a simple C, C++, Java, Perl, PHP or Python client API. SSL/TLS security for network communication, X.509 certificates for peer to peer mutual authentication.