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Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

• latest, 5, 5.20, 5.20.0 (5.020.000-64bit/Dockerfile)
• 5.18, 5.18.2 (5.018.002-64bit/Dockerfile)
• latest-threaded, 5-threaded, 5.20-threaded, 5.20.0-threaded (5.020.000-64bit,threaded/Dockerfile)
• 5.18-threaded, 5.18.2-threaded (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

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

User Feedback

Issues

If you have any problems with, or questions about this image, please contact us through a GitHub issue or via the IRC channel #docker-library on Freenode.

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, 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.