Perl has become a language of choice for World Wide Web development, text processing, Internet services, mail filtering, systems administration, and most every other task requiring a portable and easily developed solution. Your VPS has the Perl interpreter already installed at the following location:

~/usr/local/bin/perl

Perl5 Modules

Perl5 Modules can greatly extend the functionality of your Perl programming language interpreter. By using prepared modules written by others, instead of using your own code, you can save yourself both time and effort. Many popular Perl5 modules can be easily installed on your VPS.

You may run the following command to access documentation for your favorite Perl5 module. Substitute the module name for MODULE::FAVORITE below.

% perldoc MODULE::FAVORITE

More Information

There is a wealth of available Perl information and documentation online at:

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