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.
perlvms – VMS-specific documentation for Perl DescriptionGathered below are notes describing details of Perl 5’s behavior on VMS. They are a supplement to the regular Perl 5 documentation, so we have focussed on the ways in which Perl 5 functions differently under VMS than it does under Unix, and on the interactions between Perl and…
perlvmesa – building and installing Perl for VM/ESA. SynopsisThis document will help you Configure, build, test and install Perl on VM/ESA. DescriptionThis is a fully ported perl for VM/ESA 2.3.0. It may work on other versions, but that’s the one we’ve tested it on. If you’ve downloaded the binary distribution, it needs to be installed…
perlver – The Perl Minimum Version Analyzer Synopsis adam@red:~$ perlver Perl-MinimumVersion Found directory ‘.’ Searching for Perl files… found 3 file(s) Scanning lib/Perl/MinimumVersion.pm… done Scanning t/01_compile.t… done Scanning t/02_main.t… done ——————————————————— | file | explicit | syntax | external | | ——————————————————— | | lib/Perl/MinimumVersion.pm | 5.005 | ~ | n/a | | t/01_compile.t |…
perlvar – Perl predefined variables DescriptionThe Syntax of Variable NamesVariable names in Perl can have several formats. Usually, they must begin with a letter or underscore, in which case they can be arbitrarily long (up to an internal limit of 251 characters) and may contain letters, digits, underscores, or the special sequence "::" or "’"….
perluts – Perl under UTS SynopsisThis document can be read as is: as README.uts, or you can read it after you build your package using “man perluts”. The purpose is to help you build Perl for UTS, which, if you follow these instructions, should be easy, and result in a solidly working installation. DescriptionPerl 5.7.2…
perlutil – utilities packaged with the Perl distribution DescriptionAlong with the Perl interpreter itself, the Perl distribution installs a range of utilities on your system. There are also several utilities which are used by the Perl distribution itself as part of the install process. This document exists to list all of these utilities, explain what…
perlunitut – Perl Unicode Tutorial DescriptionThe days of just flinging strings around are over. It’s well established that modern programs need to be capable of communicating funny accented letters, and things like euro symbols. This means that programmers need new habits. It’s easy to program Unicode capable software, but it does require discipline to do…
perluniprops – Index of Unicode Version 12.1.0 character properties in Perl DescriptionThis document provides information about the portion of the Unicode database that deals with character properties, that is the portion that is defined on single code points. (“Other information in the Unicode data base” below briefly mentions other data that Unicode provides.) Perl can…
perluniintro – Perl Unicode introduction DescriptionThis document gives a general idea of Unicode and how to use Unicode in Perl. See “Further Resources” for references to more in-depth treatments of Unicode. UnicodeUnicode is a character set standard which plans to codify all of the writing systems of the world, plus many other symbols. Unicode and…
perlunifaq – Perl Unicode FAQ Q and AThis is a list of questions and answers about Unicode in Perl, intended to be read after perlunitut. perlunitut isn’t really a Unicode tutorial, is it?No, and this isn’t really a Unicode FAQ. Perl has an abstracted interface for all supported character encodings, so this is actually a…
perlunicode – Unicode support in Perl DescriptionIf you haven’t already, before reading this document, you should become familiar with both perlunitut and perluniintro. Unicode aims to UNI-fy the en-CODE-ings of all the world’s character sets into a single Standard. For quite a few of the various coding standards that existed when Unicode was first created,…
perltru64 – Perl version 5 on Tru64 (formerly known as Digital UNIX formerly known as DEC OSF/1) systems DescriptionThis document describes various features of HP‘s (formerly Compaq’s, formerly Digital’s) Unix operating system (Tru64) that will affect how Perl version 5 (hereafter just Perl) is configured, compiled and/or runs. Compiling Perl 5 on Tru64The recommended compiler…
perltrap – Perl traps for the unwary DescriptionThe biggest trap of all is forgetting to "use warnings" or use the -w switch; see warnings and perlrun. The second biggest trap is not making your entire program runnable under "use strict". The third biggest trap is not reading the list of changes in this version of…
perltodo – Link to the Perl to-do list DescriptionThe Perl 5 to-do list is maintained in the git repository, and can be viewed at <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob/HEAD:/Porting/todo.pod> (The to-do list used to be here in perltodo. That has stopped, as installing a snapshot that becomes increasingly out of date isn’t that useful to anyone.)
perltoc – perl documentation table of contents DescriptionThis page provides a brief table of contents for the rest of the Perl documentation set. It is meant to be scanned quickly or grepped through to locate the proper section you’re looking for. Basic Documentationperl – The Perl 5 language interpreterSYNOPSIS GETTING HELP Overview Tutorials Reference Manual…
perltie – how to hide an object class in a simple variable Synopsis tie VARIABLE, CLASSNAME, LIST $object = tied VARIABLE untie VARIABLEDescriptionPrior to release 5.0 of Perl, a programmer could use dbmopen() to connect an on-disk database in the standard Unix dbm(3x) format magically to a %HASH in their program. However, their Perl was…
perltidy – a perl script indenter and reformatter Synopsis perltidy [ options ] file1 file2 file3 … (output goes to file1.tdy, file2.tdy, file3.tdy, …) perltidy [ options ] file1 -o outfile perltidy [ options ] file1 -st >outfile perltidy [ options ] <infile >outfileDescriptionPerltidy reads a perl script and writes an indented, reformatted script. Many…
perlthrtut – Tutorial on threads in Perl DescriptionThis tutorial describes the use of Perl interpreter threads (sometimes referred to as ithreads). In this model, each thread runs in its own Perl interpreter, and any data sharing between threads must be explicit. The user-level interface for ithreads uses the threads class. NOTE: There was another older…
perlbug – how to submit bug reports on Perl Synopsisperlbug perlbug [ -v ] [ -a address ] [ -s subject ] [ -b body | -f inputfile ] [ -F outputfile ] [ -r returnaddress ] [ -e editor ] [ -c adminaddress | -C ] [ -S ] [ -t ] [ -d ] [ -h ] [ -T ] perlbug [ -v ] [ -r returnaddress ] [ -ok | -okay | -nok | -nokay ] perlthanks DescriptionThis program is designed to help you generate bug reports (and thank-you notes) about perl5 and the modules which ship with it. In most cases, you…
perltex – enable LaTeX macros to be defined in terms of Perl code Synopsisperltex [–help] [–latex=program] [—[no]safe] [–permit=feature] [–makesty] [latex options] DescriptionLaTeX — through the underlying TeX typesetting system — produces beautifully typeset documents but has a macro language that is difficult to program. In particular, support for complex string manipulation is largely lacking. Perl…