docs/perl/README-content.md

What is Perl?

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

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 single file projects, it may not be convenient to write a Dockerfile for your project. 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