# What is Perl?
Perl is a family of high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. The Perl languages borrow freatures from other programming languages including C, shell scripting (sh), AWK, and sed.

> [wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl)

# How to use this image

## Create a `Dockerfile` in your perl app project.

    FROM perl
    ADD . /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 single file projects, it may not be convenient to write a `Dockerfile` for your project. 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 perl your-daemon-or-script.pl