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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 translates awk to perl.

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

dprofpp displays perl profile data.

find2perl translates find commands to perl.

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

h2xs converts .h C header files to Perl extensions.

perl combines some of the best features of C, sed, awk and sh into a single swiss-army language.

perlbug is used to generate bug reports about Perl or the modules that come with it, and mail them.

perlcc generates executables from Perl programs.

perldoc displays a piece of documentation in pod format that is embedded in the perl installation tree or in a perl script.

pl2pm is a rough tool for converting Perl4 .pl files to Perl5 .pm modules.

pod2html converts files from pod format to HTML format.

pod2latex converts files from pod format to LaTeX format.

pod2man converts pod data to formatted *roff input.

pod2text converts pod data to formatted ASCII text.

pod2usage prints usage messages from embedded pod docs in files.

podchecker checks the syntax of pod format documentation files.

podselect displays selected sections of pod documentation.

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

s2p translates sed to perl.

splain is used to force verbose warning diagnostics in perl.

### Library file descriptions

attrs...

B...

ByteLoader...

DProf...

Dumper...

DynaLoader...

Fcntl...

Glob...

Hostname...

IO...

libperl...

Opcode...

Peek...

POSIX...

re...

SDBM_File...

Socket...

Syslog...

SysV...

##

## 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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