Part 2. Minimal Perl: for UNIX and Linux Shell Programmers
Part 1 focused on ways in which simple Perl programs can provide superior alternatives to standard Unix commands. Along the way, you learned the features of Perl that are relevant to emulating or surpassing the functionality of grep, sed, awk, and find. Although those features are an essential subset of Minimal Perl, there’s more for you to discover.
In part 2, our focus will shift to rounding out your view of Perl. Accordingly, you’ll learn to use additional language features that will let your programs solve a wider variety of problems, and to do so with greater efficiency and OS portability.
The topics we’ll cover are diverse, including the following:
Special programming techniques used ...
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