Perl in FreeBSD
Although a concerted effort has been made to eliminate them in favor of shell scripts or compiled programs, some of the programs that make up FreeBSD’s core installation are actually Perl scripts. The rest are generally compiled binaries, built from source code written in C, C++, or a number of other popular languages. These binaries cannot be read by a human or easily decompiled back to source form. Perl code, on the other hand, does not need to be compiled. It exists as plain text, easily readable and editable, and is run with the help of the Perl interpreter, /usr/local/bin/perl.
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Until FreeBSD 5.0, Perl was included by default in the core operating system. For a variety of reasons, it is no longer in /usr/bin as part of ...
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