Section 1: user commands and tools
NAME perl5110delta – what is new for perl v5.11.0 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.10.0 release and the 5.11.0 development release. Incompatible Changes Unicode interpretation of \w, \d, \s, and the POSIX character classes redefined. Previous versions of Perl tried to map POSIX style character class definitions onto Unicode property names so that…
NAME perl5101delta – what is new for perl v5.10.1 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.10.0 release and the 5.10.1 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.8.8, first read the perl5100delta, which describes differences between 5.8.8 and 5.10.0 Incompatible Changes Switch statement changes The handling of complex expressions by…
NAME perl5100delta – what is new for perl 5.10.0 DESCRIPTION This document describes the differences between the 5.8.8 release and the 5.10.0 release. Many of the bug fixes in 5.10.0 were already seen in the 5.8.X maintenance releases; they are not duplicated here and are documented in the set of man pages named perl58[1-8]?delta. Core…
NAME perl5005delta – what’s new for perl5.005 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.004 release and this one. About the new versioning system Perl is now developed on two tracks: a maintenance track that makes small, safe updates to released production versions with emphasis on compatibility; and a development track that pursues more aggressive…
NAME perl5004delta – what’s new for perl5.004 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.003 release (as documented in Programming Perl, second edition—the Camel Book) and this one. Supported Environments Perl5.004 builds out of the box on Unix, Plan 9, LynxOS, VMS, OS/2, QNX, AmigaOS, and Windows NT. Perl runs on Windows 95 as well,…
perl – The Perl 5 language interpreter Synopsis perl [ -sTtuUWX ] [ -hv ] [ -V[:configvar] ] [ -cw ] [ -d[t][:debugger] ] [ -D[number/list] ] [ -pna ] [ -Fpattern ] [ -l[octal] ] [ -0[octal/hexadecimal] ] [ -Idir ] [ -m[–]module ] [ -M[–]‘module…’ ] [ -f ] [ -C [number/list] ] [ -S ] [ -x[dir] ] [ -i[extension] ] [ [-e|-E] ‘command’ ] [ — ] [ programfile ] [ argument ]… For more information on these options, you can run "perldoc perlrun". Getting Help The perldoc program gives you access to all the documentation that comes with Perl. You can get more documentation, tutorials and community support online…
perl – The Perl 5 language interpreter Synopsis perl [ -sTtuUWX ] [ -hv ] [ -V[:configvar] ] [ -cw ] [ -d[t][:debugger] ] [ -D[number/list] ] [ -pna ] [ -Fpattern ] [ -l[octal] ] [ -0[octal/hexadecimal] ] [ -Idir ] [ -m[–]module ] [ -M[–]‘module…’ ] [ -f ] [ -C [number/list] ] [ -S ] [ -x[dir] ] [ -i[extension] ] [ [-e|-E] ‘command’ ] [ — ] [ programfile ] [ argument ]… For more information on these options, you can run "perldoc perlrun". Getting Help The perldoc program gives you access to all the documentation that comes with Perl. You can get more documentation, tutorials and community support online…
perl – The Perl 5 language interpreter Synopsis perl [ -sTtuUWX ] [ -hv ] [ -V[:configvar] ] [ -cw ] [ -d[t][:debugger] ] [ -D[number/list] ] [ -pna ] [ -Fpattern ] [ -l[octal] ] [ -0[octal/hexadecimal] ] [ -Idir ] [ -m[–]module ] [ -M[–]‘module…’ ] [ -f ] [ -C [number/list] ] [ -S ] [ -x[dir] ] [ -i[extension] ] [ [-e|-E] ‘command’ ] [ — ] [ programfile ] [ argument ]… For more information on these options, you can run "perldoc perlrun". Getting Help The perldoc program gives you access to all the documentation that comes with Perl. You can get more documentation, tutorials and community support online…
perl – The Perl 5 language interpreter Synopsis perl [ -sTtuUWX ] [ -hv ] [ -V[:configvar] ] [ -cw ] [ -d[t][:debugger] ] [ -D[number/list] ] [ -pna ] [ -Fpattern ] [ -l[octal] ] [ -0[octal/hexadecimal] ] [ -Idir ] [ -m[–]module ] [ -M[–]‘module…’ ] [ -f ] [ -C [number/list] ] [ -S ] [ -x[dir] ] [ -i[extension] ] [ [-e|-E] ‘command’ ] [ — ] [ programfile ] [ argument ]… For more information on these options, you can run "perldoc perlrun". Getting Help The perldoc program gives you access to all the documentation that comes with Perl. You can get more documentation, tutorials and community support online…
perl – The Perl 5 language interpreter Synopsis perl [ -sTtuUWX ] [ -hv ] [ -V[:configvar] ] [ -cw ] [ -d[t][:debugger] ] [ -D[number/list] ] [ -pna ] [ -Fpattern ] [ -l[octal] ] [ -0[octal/hexadecimal] ] [ -Idir ] [ -m[–]module ] [ -M[–]‘module…’ ] [ -f ] [ -C [number/list] ] [ -S ] [ -x[dir] ] [ -i[extension] ] [ [-e|-E] ‘command’ ] [ — ] [ programfile ] [ argument ]… For more information on these options, you can run "perldoc perlrun". Getting Help The perldoc program gives you access to all the documentation that comes with Perl. You can get more documentation, tutorials and community support online…
perl – The Perl 5 language interpreter Synopsis perl [ -sTtuUWX ] [ -hv ] [ -V[:configvar] ] [ -cw ] [ -d[t][:debugger] ] [ -D[number/list] ] [ -pna ] [ -Fpattern ] [ -l[octal] ] [ -0[octal/hexadecimal] ] [ -Idir ] [ -m[–]module ] [ -M[–]‘module…’ ] [ -f ] [ -C [number/list] ] [ -S ] [ -x[dir] ] [ -i[extension] ] [ [-e|-E] ‘command’ ] [ — ] [ programfile ] [ argument ]… For more information on these options, you can run "perldoc perlrun". Getting Help The perldoc program gives you access to all the documentation that comes with Perl. You can get more documentation, tutorials and community support online…
perl.req – list requirements for Perl scripts and libraries Synopsis perl.req [-h|–help] [-v|–verbose] [-m|–method=strict|normal|relaxed] [FILE…] Description perl.req calculates prerequisites for each Perl source file specified on a command line; alternatively, a list of files is obtained from standard input, one file per line. "use", "require" and "do" statements are processed. The output of perl.req is…
perl.prov – list what Perl source files provide Synopsis perl.prov [-v|–verbose] [FILE…] Description This script calculates conventional name for each Perl source file specified on a command line, based on its location relative to standard Perl library paths; alternatively, a list of files is obtained from standard input, one file per line. *.pm, *.pl, and…
NAME perl – The Perl 5 language interpreter SYNOPSIS perl [ -sTtuUWX ] [ -hv ] [ -V[:configvar] ] [ -cw ] [ -d[t][:debugger] ] [ -D[number/list] ] [ -pna ] [ -Fpattern ] [ -l[octal] ] [ -0[octal/hexadecimal] ] [ -Idir ] [ -m[–]module ] [ -M[–]‘module…’ ] [ -f ] [ -C [number/list] ] [ -S ] [ -x[dir] ] [ -i[extension] ] [ [-e|-E] ‘command’ ] [ — ] [ programfile ] [ argument ]… For more information on these options, you can run "perldoc perlrun". GETTING HELP The perldoc program gives you access to all the documentation that comes with Perl. You can get more documentation, tutorials and community support…
NAME perfalloc – notify pmdaperfevent(1) to disable hardware counter allocation. SYNOPSIS $PCP_PMDAS_DIR/perfevent/perfalloc [-D] [-d] [-f lockfile] [-h] [-v] [COMMAND] DESCRIPTION perfalloc is a command that notifies the pmdaperfevent(1) to disable hardware counter event collection. This allow unprivileged processes to use the hardware counters. If the reservation request fails, then perfalloc exits immediately with exit code…
NAME perf – Performance analysis tools for Linux SYNOPSIS perf[–version][–help][OPTIONS] COMMAND[ARGS] OPTIONS –debug Setup debug variable (just verbose for now) in value range (0, 10). Use like: –debug verbose # sets verbose = 1 –debug verbose=2 # sets verbose = 2 DESCRIPTION Performance counters for Linux are a new kernel-based subsystem that provide a framework…
NAME perf-trace – strace inspired tool SYNOPSIS perf trace perf trace record DESCRIPTION This command will show the events associated with the target, initially syscalls, but other system events like pagefaults, task lifetime events, scheduling events, etc. This is a live mode tool in addition to working with perf.data files like the other perf tools….
NAME perf-top – System profiling tool. SYNOPSIS perf top[-e<EVENT> | –event = EVENT][<options>] DESCRIPTION This command generates and displays a performance counter profile in real time. OPTIONS -a, –all-cpus System-wide collection. (default) -c <count>, –count=<count> Event period to sample. -C <cpu-list>, –cpu=<cpu> Monitor only on the list of CPUs provided. Multiple CPUs can be provided…
NAME perf-timechart – Tool to visualize total system behavior during a workload SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION There are two variants of perf timechart: ‘perf timechart record <command>’ to record the system level events of an arbitrary workload. By default timechart records only scheduler and CPU events (task switches, running times, CPU power states, etc), but it’s possible…
NAME perf-test – Runs sanity tests. SYNOPSIS perf test[<options>][{list<test – name – fragment> | [<test – name – fragments> | <test – numbers>]}] DESCRIPTION This command does assorted sanity tests, initially through linked routines but also will look for a directory with more tests in the form of scripts. To get a list of available…