[SoftTalker]

Yep I responded in another comment but I use sed and awk almost daily but I never learned Perl. It's actually something that could be useful in my current role though -- is there a particularly good intro to Perl in 2023 that I might want to look at?

[idlewords]

The Perl man pages are really good! Start with "man perlintro" and then look at whatever sections in the "man perl" table of contents fit your needs.

A lot of the tutorials online in my opinion are overbaked and written for people writing large OO projects using a lot of scaffolding. But the man pages were originally targeted at sed and awk users in your position.

[SoftTalker]

Sounds perfect, thanks!

[djbusby]

The wonderful thing about Perl is the docs from 2013 are still valid. All the growth/rapid-change/package-management issues that newer ecosystem suffer through Perl did in like the late 90s. 20 year old code still works (mostly). Not nearly the churn (anymore) as JS or PHP or Go or Rust.