perlquestion
willyyam
<p>Does anyone know of a good beginners tutorial on writing Perl one-liners? I constantly find myself looking at a problem that I <b>know</b> is trivial to solve, but I simply haven't written enough Perl (and no one-liners) to be able to take the problem from "theoretically trivial" to actually trivial.</p>
<p>For example, I have a directory of MS Worm (er, Word) files. I want to run them all through <code>antiword</code> to convert them to text. In English I'd say:</p>
<p><code>for each doc file, run antiword, redirecting output to a file with the same filename, but the txt extension.</code></p>
<p>And that's where I get stopped - I don't know enough about the syntax to turn my tiny problem into a tiny solution. So, any good tutorials around? There seems to be lots of reference to example programs, and lots of scripting tutorials, but not enough hand-holding for my sad self. Thanks.</p>