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# Perl

For installation instructions see the Section called Installing Perl-5.8.0 in Chapter 6.

## Official Download Location

Perl (5.8.0):
http://www.perl.com/

## Contents of Perl

(Last checked against version 5.6.1.)

The Perl package contains perl, the Practical Extraction and Report Language. Perl combines some of the best features of C, sed, awk and sh into one powerful language.

Perl installs the following:

### Program files and libraries

a2p, c2ph, dprofpp, find2perl, h2ph, h2xs, perl, perl5.6.1, perlbug, perlcc, perldoc, pl2pm, pod2html, pod2latex, pod2man, pod2text, pod2usage, podchecker, podselect, pstruct, s2p, splain,attrs.so, B.so, ByteLoader.so, DProf.so, Dumper.so, DynaLoader.a, Fcntl.so, Glob.so, Hostname.so, IO.so, libperl.a, Opcode.so, Peek.so, POSIX.so, re.so, SDBM_File.so, Socket.so, Syslog.so and SysV.so

##

## Descriptions

(Last checked against version 5.6.1.)

### Program file descriptions

#### a2p

a2p is an awk to perl translator.

#### c2ph

c2ph dumps C structures as generated from "cc -g -S" stabs.

#### dprofpp

dprofpp displays perl profile data.

#### find2perl

find2perl translates find command lines to Perl code.

#### h2ph

h2ph converts .h C header files to .ph Perl header files.

#### h2xs

h2xs converts .h C header files to Perl extensions.

#### perl, perl5.6.1

perl is the Practical Extraction and Report Language. It combines some of the best features of C, sed, awk and sh into one powerful language.

#### perlbug

perlbug helps to generate bug reports about perl or the modules that come with it, and mail them.

#### perlcc

perlcc generates executables from Perl programs.

#### perldoc

perldoc looks up a piece of documentation in .pod format that is embedded in the perl installation tree or in a perl script and displays it via "pod2man | nroff -man | $PAGER".

#### pl2pm

pl2pm is a tool to aid in the conversion of Perl4-style .pl library files to Perl5-style library modules.

#### pod2html

pod2html converts files from pod format to HTML format.

#### pod2latex

pod2latex converts files from pod format to LaTeX format.

#### pod2man

pod2man converts pod data to formatted *roff input.

#### pod2text

pod2text converts pod data to formatted ASCII text.

#### pod2usage

pod2usage prints usage messages from embedded pod docs in files.

#### podchecker

podchecker checks the syntax of pod format documentation files.

#### podselect

podselect prints selected sections of pod documentation on standard output.

#### pstruct

pstruct dumps C structures as generated from "cc -g -S" stabs.

#### s2p

s2p is a sed to perl translator.

#### splain

splain is a program to force verbose warning diagnostics in perl.

### Library file descriptions

#### attrs

No description is currently available.

#### B

No description is currently available.

#### ByteLoader

No description is currently available.

#### DProf

No description is currently available.

#### Dumper

No description is currently available.

#### DynaLoader

No description is currently available.

#### Fcntl

No description is currently available.

#### Glob

No description is currently available.

#### Hostname

No description is currently available.

#### IO

No description is currently available.

#### libperl

No description is currently available.

#### Opcode

No description is currently available.

#### Peek

No description is currently available.

#### POSIX

No description is currently available.

#### re

No description is currently available.

#### SDBM_File

No description is currently available.

#### Socket

No description is currently available.

#### Syslog

No description is currently available.

#### SysV

No description is currently available.

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## Perl Installation Dependencies

(Last checked against version 5.6.1.)

Bash: sh
Binutils: ar, as, ld, nm
Coreutils: basename, cat, chmod, comm, cp, date, echo, expr, hostname, ln,
ls, mkdir, mv, pwd, rm, sort, split, touch, tr, uname, wc,
whoami, uniq
Diffutils: cmp
Gawk: awk
GCC: cc, cc1, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Grep: egrep, grep
Make: make
Sed: sed

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