Hi Deepak, On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 02:43:02 +0530 Deepak Malhotra <planesmypass...@gmail.com> 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? > In addition to what other people here said: I (with the help of some other people) have collected some resources for learning Perl here: * http://perl-begin.org/ And there's also: * http://perl-tutorial.org/ The general consensus seems to recommend the first (and available on the web) edition of Beginning Perl for people without prior programming experience and chromatic’s book Modern Perl (also available online) for people with prior experience. If you're interested in writing Perl for command-line scripts, then I can also recommend Peteris Krumins’ Perl One-Liners Explained series (online) and book (available for purchase in PDF format): * http://www.catonmat.net/blog/perl-one-liners-explained-part-one/ Note that the Perl one-liner mindset involves less discipline than writing more serious Perl programs, and might encourage bad practises. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Funny Anti-Terrorism Story - http://shlom.in/enemy Ran Eilam To Shlomi Fish: so what are you working on? Working on a new wiki about unit testing fortunes in freecell? Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
