Perl-Teaching

Category

Programming

Program On

Teaching

Version

5.30.0, 5.30.2, 5.32.0, 5.32.1, 5.34.0, 5.34.1, 5.36.0, 5.36.1

Author / Distributor

Perl

Description

Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language. More information is at Perl

Running Program

Version 5.34.1

It is installed in /apps/eb/Perl/5.34.1-GCCcore-11.3.0

To use this version, please load the module with

ml Perl/5.34.1-GCCcore-11.3.0

Here is an example of a shell script, sub.sh, to run on the batch queue:

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH --job-name=j_Perl
#SBATCH --partition=batch
#SBATCH --mail-type=ALL
#SBATCH --mail-user=username@uga.edu
#SBATCH --ntasks=1
#SBATCH --mem=10gb
#SBATCH --time=08:00:00
#SBATCH --output=Perl.%j.out
#SBATCH --error=Perl.%j.err

cd $SLURM_SUBMIT_DIR
ml Perl/5.34.1-GCCcore-11.3.0
perl [options]

In the real submission script, at least all the above underlined values need to be reviewed or to be replaced by the proper values.

Please refer to Running_Jobs_on_the_teaching_cluster, Run X window Jobs and Run interactive Jobs for more details of running jobs at Teaching cluster.

Here is an example of job submission command:

sbatch ./sub.sh 

Documentation

ml Perl/5.34.1-GCCcore-11.3.0
perl -h

Usage: perl [switches] [--] [programfile] [arguments]
  -0[octal/hexadecimal] specify record separator (\0, if no argument)
  -a                    autosplit mode with -n or -p (splits $_ into @F)
  -C[number/list]       enables the listed Unicode features
  -c                    check syntax only (runs BEGIN and CHECK blocks)
  -d[t][:MOD]           run program under debugger or module Devel::MOD
  -D[number/letters]    set debugging flags (argument is a bit mask or alphabets)
  -e commandline        one line of program (several -e's allowed, omit programfile)
  -E commandline        like -e, but enables all optional features
  -f                    don't do $sitelib/sitecustomize.pl at startup
  -F/pattern/           split() pattern for -a switch (//'s are optional)
  -i[extension]         edit <> files in place (makes backup if extension supplied)
  -Idirectory           specify @INC/#include directory (several -I's allowed)
  -l[octnum]            enable line ending processing, specifies line terminator
  -[mM][-]module        execute "use/no module..." before executing program
  -n                    assume "while (<>) { ... }" loop around program
  -p                    assume loop like -n but print line also, like sed
  -s                    enable rudimentary parsing for switches after programfile
  -S                    look for programfile using PATH environment variable
  -t                    enable tainting warnings
  -T                    enable tainting checks
  -u                    dump core after parsing program
  -U                    allow unsafe operations
  -v                    print version, patchlevel and license
  -V[:configvar]        print configuration summary (or a single Config.pm variable)
  -w                    enable many useful warnings
  -W                    enable all warnings
  -x[directory]         ignore text before #!perl line (optionally cd to directory)
  -X                    disable all warnings
  
Run 'perldoc perl' for more help with Perl.

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Installation

Source code is obtained from Perl

System

64-bit Linux