An interpreted scripting language, known among some as "Unix's Swiss Army Chainsaw".
Perl is optimised for scanning arbitrary text files and system administration. It has built-in extended regular expression matching and replacement, a data-flow mechanism to improve security with setuid scripts and is extensible via modules that can interface to C libraries.
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| Architecture | Package Size | Installed Size | Files |
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| alpha | 5,141.9 kB | 19320 kB | [list of files] |
| amd64 | 5,097.7 kB | 18304 kB | [list of files] |
| arm | 4,413.1 kB | 13204 kB | [list of files] |
| armel | 4,425.4 kB | 13224 kB | [list of files] |
| hppa | 5,205.3 kB | 14688 kB | [list of files] |
| i386 | 4,442.7 kB | 13524 kB | [list of files] |
| ia64 | 5,387.1 kB | 20644 kB | [list of files] |
| mips | 4,602.5 kB | 13972 kB | [list of files] |
| mipsel | 4,344.7 kB | 13976 kB | [list of files] |
| powerpc | 4,815.0 kB | 14584 kB | [list of files] |
| s390 | 5,089.0 kB | 14348 kB | [list of files] |
| sparc | 4,738.9 kB | 14400 kB | [list of files] |