[ Thanks to Baiju
Thakkar for this link. ]
“Perl is a programming language usually associated with the Web
and CGI programs, but is in fact a powerful general-purpose tool
for systems administration, network programming, and a host of
other uses. In this article, I’ll begin a step-by-step tutorial
in Perl, starting with your first Perl program….“
“Let’s begin by jumping right into our first Perl program, the
ever-popular ‘Hello World’. The source code for the program looks
like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# print our greeting
print "Hello World!n";
Type this program into a file called named hello.pl. Make the file
executable using the command chmod +x hello.pl , and run it by
typing ./hello.pl . You should see the message Hello World! appear
on your console.”