As far as I know, every desktop/server distribution of Linux has Perl (and core modules) installed by default, AIX and Solaris (IIRC) also do.
By "by default" I mean that even the most lightweight variant has it.
I haven't worked on BSD or similar ones, do they come with Perl?
Motivation: I'm trying to figure out if encouraging people in my team to use Perl instead of awk/sed/other text utils would make sense.
Note: Which is the most portable of sed, awk, perl and sh? does't answer my question. Portability it's not my main concern here, availability out of the box is. Even if all unix-like systems have awk/sed I would still prefer Perl.
Note: also, by Perl I mean Perl 5.8+
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Yes, if you mean available as an ordinary third-party application rather than being bundled as part of the operating system.
FreeBSD dropped Perl from contrib back in 2003, in version 5.0. It's in ports/packages, of course.
This is also the case for NetBSD and MirBSD (a.k.a. MirOS BSD), for FreeBSD derivatives such as GhostBSD and TrueOS, and for FreeBSD fork DragonFlyBSD. FreeBSD fork MidnightBSD has retained Perl in contrib, however.
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