# Supported tags and respective `Dockerfile` links

- [`latest`, `5`, `5.20`, `5.20.0` (*5.020.000-64bit/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/perl/docker-perl/blob/r20140804.0/5.020.000-64bit/Dockerfile)
- [`5.18`, `5.18.2` (*5.018.002-64bit/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/perl/docker-perl/blob/r20140804.0/5.018.002-64bit/Dockerfile)
- [`latest-threaded`, `5-threaded`, `5.20-threaded`, `5.20.0-threaded` (*5.020.000-64bit,threaded/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/perl/docker-perl/blob/r20140804.0/5.020.000-64bit,threaded/Dockerfile)
- [`5.18-threaded`, `5.18.2-threaded` (*5.018.002-64bit,threaded/Dockerfile*)](https://github.com/perl/docker-perl/blob/r20140804.0/5.018.002-64bit,threaded/Dockerfile)

# What is Perl?

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming
language. The Perl language borrows features from other programming languages,
including C, shell scripting (sh), AWK, and sed.

> [wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl)

# How to use this image

## Create a `Dockerfile` in your Perl app project

    FROM perl:5.20
    COPY . /usr/src/myapp
    WORKDIR /usr/src/myapp
    CMD [ "perl", "./your-daemon-or-script.pl" ]

Then, build and run the Docker image:

    docker build -t my-perl-app
    docker run -it --rm --name my-running-app my-perl-app

## Run a single Perl script

For many simple, single file projects, you may find it inconvenient to write a
complete `Dockerfile`. In such cases, you can run a Perl script by using the
Perl Docker image directly:

    docker run -it --rm --name my-running-script -v "$(pwd)":/usr/src/myapp -w /usr/src/myapp perl:5.20 perl your-daemon-or-script.pl

# License

View [license information](http://dev.perl.org/licenses/)
for the software contained in this image.

# User Feedback

## Issues

If you have any problems with, or questions about this image, please contact us
 through a [GitHub issue](https://github.com/Perl/docker-perl/issues) or via the IRC
channel `#docker-library` on [Freenode](https://freenode.net).

## Contributing

You are invited to contribute new features, fixes, or updates, large or small;
we are always thrilled to receive pull requests, and do our best to process them
as fast as we can.

Before you start to code, we recommend discussing your plans 
through a [GitHub issue](https://github.com/Perl/docker-perl/issues), especially for more ambitious
contributions. This gives other contributors a chance to point you in the right
direction, give you feedback on your design, and help you find out if someone
else is working on the same thing.