Minimal Perl

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1. cutlerJul 2023
   "Minimal Perl" by Tim Maher is unrivaled for this.
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2. mongolOct 2021
   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 and awk. I don't know if it is the best tool for the job, but it has worked for me.
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3. cutlerJun 2020
   Yes, of all the Perl books in my collection Tim Maher's "Minimal Perl" (Manning) is still the one I dip into regularly.
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4. mongolJan 2020
   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.
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5. ramsaysnuuhhJan 2014
   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 the best bang/buck of any programming book I've ever read.
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6. mongolJul 2021
   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.
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