Compilation has nothing in particular to do with a language being a general purpose language in some sense, or a scripting language.

Scripting languages tend to be interpreted and very quick for a certain range of tasks. That is true of Perl - command line Perl one-liners are a common way of automating many tasks.

Scripting languages are often used for batch processing at the command line - that is certinally true of Perl.

Perl makes a lot of the things that you would want in a scripting language easily available, but also provides much more power than classic batch processing oriented scripting languages. Perl is an Uber scripting language.