On 03/16/12 14:46, Owen wrote: > >> Hi Folks, >> >> >> You might have got similar questions in past too but could I request >> to >> demystify it again on how to swiftly and quickly make transition to >> Perl >> from Bash. Although I am no expert of Bash and awk but I can do the >> stuff >> which suffice my needs. >> >> What I am really looking for is the text processing (grep , awk, tr), >> conditional statements and control structures, to automate my work and >> create scripts (Garbage-in Garbage-out types) >> >> Please guide on how to learn minimal perl quickly. Any tutorials/books >> which deals with this kind of approach? > > > > > > Try google, search on > > example perl grep > example perl awk > example perl tr > > It will get you started > > -- > Owen > >
perldoc is another great resource. I think most linux distros can be installed through package management. perldoc -f grep perldoc -f tr perldoc perlretut perldoc perlrequick There's also a website http://perldoc.perl.org/index.html regards, Ed
