Minimal Perl: For UNIX and Linux People (Repost)

Perl is a great language, with an ingenious mentality underlying it, and a terrific user community gathered around it. Given these roperties, it’s no wonder it has become so popular. It would have been easy to write a truly “minimal” book on Perl by revealing so little of the language that nobody would have been able to do much with it. This isn’t that kind of book.