Perl Script - Sending files on a particular port

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I've written some basic programs in Perl, but unwaware abut socket programming in Perl.

I need to write a file called syslog, onto port 514 of another host from port 514 of my machine. Is this possible in Perl? Which modules are to be used?

Regards,
Rahul.

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Of course yes. To avoid duplicating what you will find from the man pages, I will refer you to there:

http://perldoc.perl.org/perlipc.html\#Sockets%3A-Client%2FServer-Communication

If you have programmed Socket in C before, that's highly similar.

An alternative object-oriented API is available through some core modules shipped with Perl, i.e. IO::Socket. It's mostly a wrapper of the core socket procedural API, for those wishing to go a more OO way. Both are introduced in the page quoted above.