pl - A Perl repl for running Perl commands interactively on the command line
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This is a command for running Perl statements interactively. You type a command and then the program prints the results. If the result is a reference (array, hash, blessed hash, etc.) it will print it out using Data::Dumper. It uses the RL module (readline) for typed user input.
It saves history in the file ~/.pl_history.
Quits program.
To install RL, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm RL
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install RL
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.