The question is "what do you want to use it for?"

There are a few places where you might dig and find a perl script under the covers. Some that aren't replaceable with bash (and sed and awk).

I suspect that my "diff these two java deployments and create a file by file update script to run on the remote machine" in perl is still running for doing incremental deployments... and if someone uncovers it its still something reasonable to understand.

However, if I was tasked with that today... dunno. I'm not sure I'd reach for the same tools as I did then.

> In devops is turtle all way down but at bottom is perl script.

https://x.com/DEVOPS_BORAT/status/248770195580125185 (2013)

> If you can not able use Perl for answer, you are ask wrong question.

https://x.com/DEVOPS_BORAT/status/280900066682757120 (2012)

... and while I can't find the original - this might be your answer.

> We have 3 strike rule for devops: 1 strike we are take away Perl. 2 strike we are take away bash. 3 strike we are give PowerShell.

https://gist.github.com/textarcana/676ef78b2912d42dbf355a2f7...