This is File::Slurp Version 2001.1103, by David Muir Sharnoff File::Slurp just reads and writes entire files with single commands: read_file write_file overwrite_file append_file Install it with the following commands: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install Copyright (C) 1996, 1998, 2001 David Muir Sharnoff. License hereby granted for anyone to use, modify or redistribute this module at their own risk. Please feed useful changes back to muir@idiom.com.