Agnello George wrote: > Hi > > i am basically a a system administrator, and i have just joined this new > company where my entire team are a group pf developers + system admins and i > am the only system admin with out programming knowledge . i know a little of > shell scripting from my previous company and i thought shell scripting was > king ... but having joined this company every one is using a lot of persl to > do a lot of log parsing ... DB interaction and lot of cool hashes related > stuff ... but last one year i am trying to learn this language but dont seem > to get a hold of it . sometimes i fell shell-scripting a is a lot more > better and easier .. but my aim is to learn perl scripting ... i mean how > does one get a real hold of this language ... !! >
Welcome to the world of Perl. Some resources: perldoc -- This program is installed when perl is. It is used to access Perl's documentation. To get a table of contents, type: perldoc perl You should read: perldoc perlintro perldoc is also available on-line at http://perldoc.perl.org/ CPAN (Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) -- http://www.cpan.org/ This is a library of Perl modules and objects. If you have to do something, chances are someone else has already done it and created a module in CPAN. You can search CPAN at http://search.cpan.org/ Some Perl trivia: * Perl's motto is Tim Tow Tdi (There is more than one way to do it). When you ask a question, expect more than one answer. * Perl is the name of the language. perl is the name of the program that runs Perl scripts. (Some people are picky about this.) Enjoy your Perl programming. :) -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Programming is as much about organization and communication as it is about coding. I like Perl; it's the only language where you can bless your thingy. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
