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getting started with Perl and BASH

... was asked for pointers in a private mail; here is my quick and dirty answer:


I am no shell expert (have read and modified lots of scripts, but have not written any advanced stuff from scratch); for BASH I recommend http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html;

for Perl: the documentation packaged as man pages is very good (do a "man perl" to get the index), and in book form almost anything from O'Reilly is good (they are the unofficial sponsors of Perl ;) ) , this one is a must http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596000271 , this one is a good place to start http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596520113 , and http://www.onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/index.html as soon as you're done with "Learning Perl" .

Anything signed by Randal Schwartz, Damian Conway, chromatic, Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen (and others, but those are the names I remember now) is worth reading, whether in print or on the web.

you can find books online here http://www.perl.org/learn.html , and some other links here http://oreilly.com/perl/

If you're on windows get Active Perl http://www.activestate.com/activeperl or Strawberry Perl http://strawberryperl.com/ , both are very good. Indigo Perl used to be in vogue years ago, might not be a bad choice http://www.indigostar.com/indigoperl.php ... a long time ago I used to use Indigo Perl when exiled in M.S. land, so I am a bit partial to them :), but Strawberry Perl appears to be the "official" Windows port of Perl.

If you know Unix/Linux reasonably well, you could try http://www.cygwin.com/ : you get a lot of unix tools running on windows including perl, or install Linux in a virtual machine (I recommend VirtualBox, but Parallels and VMWare make good tools, too).

interview with Damian Conway

might be old, I just found it

interview with Damian Conway

Mojolicious 1.0

finally with documentation :)

http://mojolicio.us/

memory leaks

been hunting Catalyst/Template Toolkit memory leaks for a few days ...

unicode again

nice explanation

http://www.ahinea.com/en/tech/perl-unicode-struggle.html

Padre again

Been using it for a week every day, and it feels great.

There are a few issues, but it has crashed on me only once, syntax highlighting in css is great, knows when it's editing html without filename hints and does not balk at Mason ... besides having perltidy and perlcritic only one keyboard shortcut away.