The Linux Manuals (man pages) document is an important part of Linux documents. Linux Manuals are organized as several sections. Each section has a group of commands for a specific area in Linux usage, administration or development.
perlperf – Perl Performance and Optimization Techniques DescriptionThis is an introduction to the use of performance and optimization techniques which can be used with particular reference to perl programs. While many perl developers have come from other languages, and can use their prior knowledge where appropriate, there are many other people who might benefit from…
perlpacktut – tutorial on "pack" and "unpack" Description"pack" and "unpack" are two functions for transforming data according to a user-defined template, between the guarded way Perl stores values and some well-defined representation as might be required in the environment of a Perl program. Unfortunately, they’re also two of the most misunderstood and most often overlooked…
perlothrtut – old tutorial on threads in Perl DescriptionWARNING: This tutorial describes the old-style thread model that was introduced in release 5.005. This model is deprecated, and has been removed for version 5.10. The interfaces described here were considered experimental, and are likely to be buggy. For information about the new interpreter threads (“ithreads”) model,…
perlos400 – Perl version 5 on OS/400 This document needs to be updated, but we don’t know what it should say. Please email comments to perlbug [at] perl.org <mailto:perlbug [at] perl.org>. DescriptionThis document describes various features of IBM‘s OS/400 operating system that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs….
perlos390 – building and installing Perl for OS/390 and z/OS SynopsisThis document will help you Configure, build, test and install Perl on OS/390 (aka z/OS) Unix System Services. This document needs to be updated, but we don’t know what it should say. Please email comments to perlbug [at] perl.org <mailto:perlbug [at] perl.org>. DescriptionThis is a…
perlos2 – Perl under OS/2, DOS, Win0.3*, Win0.95 and WinNT. SynopsisOne can read this document in the following formats: man perlos2 view perl perlos2 explorer perlos2.html info perlos2to list some (not all may be available simultaneously), or it may be read as is: either as README.os2, or pod/perlos2.pod. To read the .INF version of documentation…
perlopentut – simple recipes for opening files and pipes in Perl DescriptionWhenever you do I/O on a file in Perl, you do so through what in Perl is called a filehandle. A filehandle is an internal name for an external file. It is the job of the "open" function to make the association between the…
perlopenbsd – Perl version 5 on OpenBSD systems DescriptionThis document describes various features of OpenBSD that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is compiled and/or runs. OpenBSD core dumps from getprotobyname_r and getservbyname_r with ithreadsWhen Perl is configured to use ithreads, it will use re-entrant library calls in preference to non-re-entrant versions….
perlop – Perl operators and precedence DescriptionIn Perl, the operator determines what operation is performed, independent of the type of the operands. For example "$x + $y" is always a numeric addition, and if $x or $y do not contain numbers, an attempt is made to convert them to numbers first. This is in contrast to many…
perlootut – Object-Oriented Programming in Perl Tutorial DateThis document was created in February, 2011, and the last major revision was in February, 2013. If you are reading this in the future then it’s possible that the state of the art has changed. We recommend you start by reading the perlootut document in the latest stable…
perlobj – Perl object reference DescriptionThis document provides a reference for Perl’s object orientation features. If you’re looking for an introduction to object-oriented programming in Perl, please see perlootut. In order to understand Perl objects, you first need to understand references in Perl. See perlreftut for details. This document describes all of Perl’s object-oriented (OO)…
perlnumber – semantics of numbers and numeric operations in Perl Synopsis $n = 1234; # decimal integer $n = 0b1110011; # binary integer $n = 01234; # octal integer $n = 0x1234; # hexadecimal integer $n = 12.34e-56; # exponential notation $n = "-12.34e56"; # number specified as a string $n = "1234"; # number…
perlnewmod – preparing a new module for distribution DescriptionThis document gives you some suggestions about how to go about writing Perl modules, preparing them for distribution, and making them available via CPAN. One of the things that makes Perl really powerful is the fact that Perl hackers tend to want to share the solutions to…
perlnetware – Perl for NetWare DescriptionThis file gives instructions for building Perl 5.7 and above, and also Perl modules for NetWare. Before you start, you may want to read the README file found in the top level directory into which the Perl source code distribution was extracted. Make sure you read and understand the terms…
perlmroapi – Perl method resolution plugin interface DescriptionAs of Perl 5.10.1 there is a new interface for plugging and using method resolution orders other than the default (linear depth first search). The C3 method resolution order added in 5.10.0 has been re-implemented as a plugin, without changing its Perl-space interface. Each plugin should register itself…
perlmpeix – Perl/iX for HP e3000 MPE Synopsis http://www.bixby.org/mark/perlix.html Perl language for MPE Last updated January 12, 2006 @ 2100 UTCNoteThis is a podified version of what used to be on the above-mentioned web page, podified by Jarkko Hietaniemi 2001-Jan-01. What’s New in Perl for MPE/iXJanuary 12, 2006 • Updated for perl-5.8.8 and perl-5.9.3 by…
perlmodstyle – Perl module style guide IntroductionThis document attempts to describe the Perl Community’s “best practice” for writing Perl modules. It extends the recommendations found in perlstyle , which should be considered required reading before reading this document. While this document is intended to be useful to all module authors, it is particularly aimed at…
perlmodlib – constructing new Perl modules and finding existing ones The Perl Module LibraryMany modules are included in the Perl distribution. These are described below, and all end in .pm. You may discover compiled library files (usually ending in .so) or small pieces of modules to be autoloaded (ending in .al); these were automatically generated…
perlmodinstall – Installing CPAN Modules DescriptionYou can think of a module as the fundamental unit of reusable Perl code; see perlmod for details. Whenever anyone creates a chunk of Perl code that they think will be useful to the world, they register as a Perl developer at <http://www.cpan.org/modules/04pause.html> so that they can then upload their…
perlmod – Perl modules (packages and symbol tables) DescriptionIs this the document you were after?There are other documents which might contain the information that you’re looking for: This doc Perl’s packages, namespaces, and some info on classes. perlnewmod Tutorial on making a new module. perlmodstyle Best practices for making a new module.PackagesUnlike Perl 4, in…