Here’s something I’m pretty proud of. A couple months ago I started playing with Perl again and I wrote this very simple, command-line password manager. I now use it regularly to retrieve and update my passwords.

So simple, but so helpful. Thank you, Larry Wall.

# This is Password Manager v0.3
#
# A program written by and for
# Matt Forsythe. It will store
# passwords in a colon-
# delimited, flat-file db located
# at $dbpath
#
# A sample line of data would
# look like this:
#
# accountname:username:&tc.
#
#! user/bin/perl -w
#
# password file location

$dbpath = "C:/pw/location.txt";

print "\nPassword Manager v0.3\n\n";

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