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Introduction to Perl for Unix System Administrators

(Perl without OO and excessive complexity)

by Dr Nikolai Bezroukov


Chapter 2: Perl Overview

Version 0.73

This chapter provide a general overview of Perl. The problem here is that it's impossible to construct a very logical sequence of chapters in such a way that material of nest would be completely based on than previous. So here is have something like view of Perl kingdom from a helicopter. Foot travel is necessary to get the full picture, but it's much more time consuming :-). 

You should use Perl man pages as a reference. We provided slightly modified and annotated man pages at your convenience at www.softpanorama.org


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