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In January 2018, I proposed a CPAN Butterfly Plan to convert Perl functionality to Raku as closely as possible to the original API. I stated this as a goal because Perl (as a programming language) is so much more than syntax alone. Ask anyone what Perl's unique selling point is, and they will most likely tell you it is CPAN.

MetaCPAN. There are a number of project in the Perl community. This is one of the most interesting ones. source code

Perl has numerous modules for practically everything. Try a search on https://metacpan.org for anything that takes your fancy.

I can point to the module library metacpan.org that has modules to do tons of different things -- I don't know what equivalent resouorce Python has.

A good place for this issue would be https://github.com/metacpan/metacpan-web

All language package index websites are a poor imitation of metacpan.org. Without a doubt it is the single best package website I have used for finding packages, reading docs, examples, version changes, source repo. Everybody should be shamelessly copying it.

While the indicates that this is a Windows-related thing, there are a number of packages on CPAN that are in the Win32 namespace, but also work on Linux. This one, it seems does not. It seems at least one of its dependencies, the Win32-API does not work on anything else besides Windows.

A Perl distribution is an archive of files that includes a Perl module. There are no official rules on what non-module files must be included in a distribution, but they often include (among other things) test scripts, a Makefile.PL, documentation, and the license. These distributions are commonly uploaded to CPAN, which is a place for Perl programmers to upload their Perl distributions for the purpose of sharing their code.

If there are modules being used, you can read their documentation using the perldoc command or looking online at https://metacpan.org

I'm still on Vim 8.1 (Ubuntu 20). Most of my settings are available here: https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course/blob/master/.vimrc

Here's mine: https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course/blob/master/.vimrc

I wrote ebooks on CLI one-liners based on grep/sed/awk/perl/ruby/coreutils/etc. These are free to read online: https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course#ebooks

Plenty of examples and exercises.

There are huge lists on freely available books on programming topics here:

* https://ebookfoundation.github.io/free-programming-books/boo...

* https://ebookfoundation.github.io/free-programming-books/boo...

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All my book are free to read online and markdown source are available on GitHub: https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course#ebooks

I did have an option couple of years back, but there were hardly any buyers. So I closed that store instead of spending time in keeping them updated.

All my books are free to read online: https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course#ebooks

Also, you could print to pdf using the markdown source from my GitHub repos or use tools like pandoc to convert markdown to pdf/epub.

These might help:

* https://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/series/unix-as-ide/

* https://themouseless.dev/

Personally, I use gvim for all my text editing needs and use a normal terminal (i.e. no tmux, i3, etc). There's not much to share, unless you are interested in my vimrc, aliases, etc: https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course

Thanks, do you mean web versions of my books? I made those using mdBook to convert markdown to html (plus js for things like search features).

https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course#ebooks - I have several books on regex with plenty of examples/exercises (free to read online)

I have separate books for Python/Ruby/JS regexp. My books on grep/sed/awk include detailed chapters on regexp. You can read them for free online, see https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course#ebooks for links. I use lots of examples to present a concept and there are plenty of exercises to test your knowledge as well.

I have a few resources collected here: https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course/blob/master/Linux_curated_resources.md#shell-scripting