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Introducing UNIX and Linux


Perl

Overview
Introduction
      Why yet another utility?
      Beginning Perl
      Invoking Perl
      Documentation on perl
      Perl Scripts
Variables
Input and output
      Files and redirection
      Pipes
      The DATA filehandle
Fields
Control structures
Predefined Perl
      Functions
      Modules
Regular expressions
      Single character translation
      String editing
Perl and the Kernel
Quality code
When do I use Perl?
Summary
Exercises

Overview

This chapter discusses

  • simple use of Perl; and
  • how to use Perl effectively in combination with other UNIX tools.

Copyright © 2002 Mike Joy, Stephen Jarvis and Michael Luck