------------------------------------------------ On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:39:04 -0400, "Dylan Boudreau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am a network administrator maintaining strictly Unix boxes of some > type or another. I want to become as proficient at Perl as I possibly > can because I see scripting as the week point on my resume. I have the > Oreilly book "Perl for System Administrators" but I want to read another > book before I get in to that one so I have a good base. > > I think the main thing I want to get out of the next book is more > familiarity with modules because Learning Perl doesn't really cover them > well at all. > > Dylan > Have you been through the provided perl documentation? Surprisingly I found it incredibly helpful despite my lack of its use for the first 4+ years of using Perl (granted I already had the other standard issues, Camel, Cookbook, OOP Perl, DBI, XML, etc.) perldoc perl will give you a list of goodies to try, once you understand using CPAN, then few modules will have (or need) a book devoted to them (the exceptions already do, CGI, DBI, XML) but most 90+% have good standard documentation that is available with the module itself or online. If you start with: perldoc perlmod - Perl modules: how they work perldoc perlmodlib - Perl modules: how to write and use perldoc perlmodinstall Perl modules: how to install from CPAN perldoc perlreftut - Perl references short introduction perldoc perlref - Perl references, the rest of the story That will give you a great overview and then exploring any particular module should be relatively similar to any other. http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
