Perl is short for Practical Extraction and Report Language and provides a widely recognized web and interface development framework.
To find out if perl is installed on your system, in the command line, you can enter:
$ perl
If there is no error and the mouse pointer keeps blinking, then it means a version of perl is indeed installed on your system.
To find out what version of perl is installed, you need to run the perl with the version flag v:
$ perl -v
The following sample output will be generated in the mac terminal once the above command is run:
If you would like to install perl on your macOS device altogether, then you need to perform the following two steps:
Download and install the “Command Line Tools for Xcode”.This can either be downloaded using Xcode or downloaded from the official Apple Developer downloads website here.
Once you have the Xcode tool kit installed, you need to run the following command in the terminal:
$ curl -L http://xrl.us/installperlosx | bash
To know about the details of Perl’s installation and setup, you may refer to the official documentation for Perl in macOS.
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