This used to be a super simple no-brainer. For example, if I were looking for python documentation, I'd first do a google search for:
python documentation pdf
... and voila! The first result is exactly what's needed: A single downloadable containing PDFs for Python. There are 27 files, but one of them documents Python core.
But I'm not looking for a comprehensive Python documentation. I'm looking for the same type of document, but for Perl. Doing the same google search for:
Perl documentation pdf
(or similar queries) would show references to either perl.org, perldoc.perl.org, perl.developpez.com, perl.mines-albi.fr, etc, but none gives a download link for a single comprehensive PDF that documents core Perl.
There used to be a downloadable large PDF file (built from a large manpage), which has disappeared since some 5.x version. I know that all the pieces of this core Perl document are available online in perl.org, perldoc.perl.org, and offline in perldoc. That's wonderful for people who want to repeatedly manually query on a terminal or browser. I'm simply asking where can I find a single PDF file that contains the entire core Perl documentation, in the same way that there's one for:
- Python (as mentioned above. See: https://docs.python.org/3/archives/python-3.9.7-docs-pdf-letter.zip, in the zip as "reference.pdf")
- MySQL (https://downloads.mysql.com/docs/refman-8.0-en.pdf)
- JavaScript/ECMAScript (https://www.ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-262_12th_edition_june_2021.pdf)
Sorry if I'm missing something obvious.
PLEASE NOTE: I'm NOT looking for "book recommendations," as the SO review of my question had asserted (and subsequently labeled the question as inappropriate). I know the books. If I wanted them, I would have bought them from Amazon.
You were looking for the current perl documentation and you got it. perldoc.perl.org has it.
There's no single pdf, single html or single chm anymore (though various libraries to produce one). perldoc for core perl consists of hundreds of documents, and with all the CPAN libraries you are at >100.000 documents. Plus there exist dozen or so perl books which are available as pdf.
There's no single perlbook, rather perlbook has a list of most books about perl.