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# perl
> The Perl 5 language interpreter.
- Parse and execute a Perl script:
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`perl {{script.pl}}`
- Check syntax errors on a Perl script:
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`perl -c {{script.pl}}`
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- Parse and execute a perl statement:
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`perl -e {{perl_statement}}`
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- Import module before execution of a perl statement:
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`perl -M{{module}} -e {{perl_statement}}`
- Run a Perl script in debug mode, using `perldebug`:
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`perl -d {{script.pl}}`
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- Loo[p] over all lines of a file, editing them [i]n-place using a find/replace [e]xpression:
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`perl -p -i -e 's/{{find}}/{{replace}}/g' {{filename}}`
- Run a find/replace expression on a file, saving the original file with a given extension:
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`perl -p -i'.old' -e 's/{{find}}/{{replace}}/g' {{filename}}`