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Introduction to Perl for Unix System Administrators

(Perl without excessive complexity)

by Dr Nikolai Bezroukov

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Webliography

There are at least half-dozen free Perl ebooks on the web. Among them:

• Beginning Perl - perl.org by Simon Cozens
  • See Softpanorama review: Beginning Perl
  • See also Simon Cozens  Perl 5 Internals
• Impatient Perl
• Perl 5 by Example- Welcome
• Perl for the Web by Chris Radcliff

  Perl for the Web is a book I wrote that was published by New Riders in August 2001. It provides tools and strategies to improve the performance of existing Web applications in Perl. It also provides principles and ideas that help Web programmers create an extensible framework for future growth.

O'Reilly Perl CD Bookshelf can bought for peanuts and worth every penny. It has four editions

• First edition (1999). Currently approximately $3 plus shipping on Amazon. 
  • Perl in a Nutshell
  • Learning Perl
  • Learning Perl on Win32 Systems
  • Programming Perl
  • Advanced Perl Programming
  • Perl Cookbook
• The second edition May 15, 2001 Perl CD Bookshelf 2.0 CD-ROM
  • Perl in a Nutshell, by Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour & Nathan Patwardhan
  • Programming Perl, 3rd Edition, by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen & Jon Orwant
  • Advanced Perl Programming, by Sriram Srinivasan
  • Perl Cookbook, by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington
  • Perl for System Administration, by David N. Blank-Edelman
• The third edition September 25, 2002 The Perl CD Bookshelf, Version 3.0 (9780596003890) O'Reilly & Associates Books
  • Contains 7 popular Perl books.
    • Perl in a Nutshell (paperback version included),
    • the third edition  of Learning Perl
    •  the third edition Programming Perl,
    • the Perl Cookbook,
    • and 3 new titles:
      • Perl & XML,
      • Perl & LWP,
      • Mastering Perl/Tk.
• The forth edition January 22, 2004 The Perl Cd Bookshelf- 6 Bestselling Books on Cd-Rom
  • Included are the second editions of Perl in a Nutshell, and Mastering Regular Expressions; the third editions of Learning Perl and Programming Perl;
  • 2 new titles:
    • Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules,
    • the second edition of Perl Cookbook.

Softpanorama has multiple pages devoted to Perl:

• Softpanorama scripting languages page

• Perl for Unix System Administrators

  • Perl Language
  • Perl in Vim
  • Perl Debugging
  • Perl as a command line utility tool
  • Perl One Liners
  • Perl Tips

• Perl Books  -- our collection of books (with ratings; some with reviews). The priority is given to books that have full e-text available online (so called parallel publishing). 

There is also a couple of questionable ebooks

• The Mason Book I do not like the idea; IMHO it adds complexity without much return on investment.
• Extreme Perl - Home -- I think that Extreme Programmer zealot are charlatans ;-). Your mileage can vary.

In addition to this text, online Perl reference should be used. Here are one of many possible links. It's not guaranteed to be the latest and greatest on the net. 

• Perl -- Perl overview
• Perltoc -- Perl documentation table of contents

• Perldata -- Perl data structures
• Perlsyn -- Perl syntax
• Perlop -- Perl operators and precedence
• Perlre -- Perl regular expressions
• Perlrun -- Perl execution and options
• Perlfunc -- Perl builtin functions
• Perlvar -- Perl predefined variables
• Perlsub -- Perl subroutines
• Perlmod -- Perl modules
• Perlform -- Perl formats
• Perli18n -- Perl internalization

• Perlref -- Perl references
• Perldsc -- Perl data structures intro
• Perllol -- Perl data structures: lists of lists
• Perlobj -- Perl objects
• Perltie -- Perl objects hidden behind simple variables
• Perlbot -- Perl OO tricks and examples
• Perlipc -- Perl interprocess communication

• Perldebug -- Perl debugging
• Perldiag -- Perl diagnostic messages
• Perlsec -- Perl security
• Perltrap -- Perl traps for the unwary
• Perlstyle -- Perl style guide

• Perlpod -- Perl plain old documentation
• Perlbook -- Perl book information

• Perlembed -- Perl how to embed Perl in your C or C++ app
• Perlapio -- Perl internal IO abstraction interface
• Perlxs -- Perl XS application programming interface
• Perlxstut -- Perl XS tutorial
• Perlguts -- Perl internal functions for those doing extensions
• Perlcall -- Perl calling conventions from C

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