Minimal Perl
by Tim Maher · first published 2007
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by Tim Maher · first published 2007
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Yes, of all the Perl books in my collection Tim Maher's "Minimal Perl" (Manning) is still the one I dip into regularly.
on “Perl 7 is going to be Perl 5.32, mostly” ↗I learned Perl initially for sysadmin'ing from Minimal Perl (http://www.amazon.com/Minimal-Perl-Unix-Linux-People/dp/1932...). It teach a subset of Perl necessary to use it as a more powerful replacement for awk/sed/grep/find, primarily with one-liners. By far…
on “Ask HN: How did you learn Perl/Shell Scripting?” ↗"Minimal Perl" by Tim Maher is unrivaled for this.
on “Perl first commit: a “replacement” for Awk and sed” ↗I don't know much Perl but 10+ years ago I read "Minimal Perl". For these purposes, I think it can act as the go-to tool.
on “Why Learn Awk? (2016)” ↗There is a book, "Minimal Perl", that is entirely about that usecase. I found it convincing, 15 years ago, and the only Perl I use are those terse command line snippets it teached, when others might use some combination of grep, sed…
on “The reports of Perl’s death have been greatly exaggerated” ↗A book "Minimal Perl" used to be referred to often in these discussions but I never hear about it any more. It was teaching these kind of tricks for command line magic.
on “Show HN: Hck – a fast and flexible cut-like tool” ↗