Thanks Peter ...minimal perl is really nice ------Original Message------ From: Peter Scott To: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: Transitioning from BASH to Perl Sent: Mar 18, 2012 6:28 PM
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 02:43:02 +0530, Deepak Malhotra wrote: > 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? Tim Maher's "Minimal Perl" was designed for your kind of requirement: http://www.amazon.com/Minimal-Perl-UNIX-Linux-People/dp/1932394508 . -- Peter Scott http://www.perlmedic.com/ http://www.perldebugged.com/ http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0137001274 http://www.oreillyschool.com/certificates/perl-programming.php -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/ Sent from BlackBerry®