Minimal Perl For Unix And Linux People 1st Edition Tim Maher by Tim Maher 9781932394504, 1932394508 instant download after payment.

Perl is a great language, with an ingenious mentality underlying it, and a terrific user community gathered around it. Given these roperties, it’s no wonder it has become so popular. It would have been easy to write a truly “minimal” book on Perl by revealing so little of the language that nobody would have been able to do much with it. This isn’t that kind of book.
Perl is a complex language that can be difficult to master. Perl advocates boast that "There's More Than One Way To Do It", but do you really want to learn several ways of saying the same thing to a computer?
To make Perl more accessible, Dr. Tim Maher has over the years designed and taught an essential subset of the language that is smaller, yet practical and powerful. With this engaging book you can now benefit from "Mininal Perl" even if all you know about Unix is grep.
In Minimal Perl, you will learn how to write simple Perl commands (many just one-liners) that go far beyond the limitations of Unix utilities, and those of Linux, MacOS/X, etc. And you'll acquire the more advanced Perl skills used in scripts by capitalizing on your knowledge of related Shell resources. Sprinkled throughout are many Unix-specific Perl tips.
what's inside
• A simpler, yet still powerful Perl
• Development of concise commands and flexible scripts
• How to package custom software in reusable modules
• How to exploit CPAN modules to avoid reinventing the wheel
• Language features in tabular summaries
• 100+ reusable programs for: system administration, web development (HTML, CGI, Forms), networking, databases, finance, text analysis, and more