pirl(1) - Linux man page

Name

pirl - A read-eval-print loop in Perl (see Shell::Perl)

Synopsis

pirl
pirl --noornaments

pirl --version
pirl -v

Example Session

$ pirl
Welcome to the Perl shell. Type ':help' for more information

pirl @> 1+1
2

pirl @> use YAML qw(Load Dump);
()

pirl @> $data = Load("--- { a: 1, b: [ 1, 2, 3] }\n");
{ a => 1, b => [1, 2, 3] }

pirl @> $var = 'a 1 2 3'; $var =~ /(\w+) (\d+) (\d+)/
("a", 1, 2)

pirl @> :q

Description

This script is the command-line interface to "Shell::Perl" which does it all.

By now, read the fine details at "Shell::Perl" documentation.

Options

--ornaments - turn on terminal ornaments (default)
--noornaments - turn off terminal organments

--version, -v - prints version info and exits with 0

See Also

Shell::Perl

Bugs

Please report bugs via CPAN RT <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Shell-Perl>.

Author

Adriano R. Ferreira, <ferreira@cpan.org>

Caio Marcelo, <cmarcelo@cpan.org>

Copyright And License

Copyright © 2007, 2008 by Adriano R. Ferreira

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.