#!/usr/bin/perl -w # chk_kern.pl - by dual # check on the latest kernels # usage: put it in your .bashrc use strict; use LWP; my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new; $browser->env_proxy(); my $response = $browser->get( 'http://www.kernel.org/kdist/finger_banner' ); die "what's wrong?" unless $response->is_success; my $output = $response->content; print $output; # perl -MLWP::Simple -e "getprint('http://www.kernel.org/kdist/finger_banner');"