Perl projects on GitHub

Perl scripting language and command line utilities written in it.

As of October 17, 2026, the most-starred Perl projects on GitHub are cloc (23.6K stars), FlameGraph (19.8K stars) and diff-so-fancy (18.1K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 9 Perl repositories with 119.4K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was cloc, with +4 stars in a day.

9Projects

119.4KStars in total

+7Stars in a day

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

cloc

AlDanial/cloc · ★ 23.6K

cloc is a command-line tool that counts blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages — point it at a file, a directory, an archive, or a git commit and get a per-language breakdown.

quine-relay

mame/quine-relay · ★ 14.6K

Quine Relay is a self-replicating program chain (an 'uroboros' quine) where a Ruby program generates a Rust program, which generates a Scala program, and so on through 128 different programming languages, until the final language outputs the original Ruby source code again.

nikto

sullo/nikto · ★ 10.8K

Nikto is an open-source web server scanner that checks servers for dangerous files, outdated software versions, and other common vulnerabilities.

cookbook

cursor/cookbook · ★ 4.1K

A collection of small, standalone examples for building on top of Cursor's agent platform, covering Cursor Hooks, self-hosted Cloud Agents, the Cursor SDK, a coding-agent CLI, and even third-party integrations with xAI's Grok.

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9 projects · by stars

#1 · AlDanial/cloc
cloc
cloc is a command-line tool that counts blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages — point it at a file, a directory, an archive, or a git commit and get a per-language breakdown.
23.6K
#2 · brendangregg/FlameGraph
FlameGraph
Brendan Gregg's FlameGraph: a set of Perl scripts that turn captured stack traces into interactive SVG flame graphs for visualizing profiled code.
19.8K
#3 · so-fancy/diff-so-fancy
diff-so-fancy
A command-line tool that turns git's machine-readable diff output into human-readable text, so you can review changes and spot defects faster.
18.1K

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quine-relay
14.6Kmame/quine-relay · Ruby
Quine Relay is a self-replicating program chain (an 'uroboros' quine) where a Ruby program generates a Rust program, which generates a Scala program, and so on through 128 different programming languages, until the final language outputs the original Ruby source code again.
5
webshell
10.8Ktennc/webshell · PHP
It's a community collection of webshells - scripts that give you control of a web server once uploaded - covering all the common server-side languages and maintained by tennc with 10k+ stars.
6
nikto
10.8Ksullo/nikto · Perl
Nikto is an open-source web server scanner that checks servers for dangerous files, outdated software versions, and other common vulnerabilities.
7
Command-line-text-processing
10.2Klearnbyexample/Command-line-text-processing · Shell
A learning repository that teaches command-line text processing tools on Linux: grep, sed, awk, Perl one-liners, Ruby one-liners, sort, diff, and more, organized into chapters with examples and exercises.
8
book
7.5Kastrid-runtime/book · Perl
This is the official reference book for Astrid, covering its kernel, capsule model, host ABI, IPC bus, and security model.
9
cookbook
4.1Kcursor/cookbook · TypeScript
A collection of small, standalone examples for building on top of Cursor's agent platform, covering Cursor Hooks, self-hosted Cloud Agents, the Cursor SDK, a coding-agent CLI, and even third-party integrations with xAI's Grok.