On 05 Jun 2001 15:47:40 -0400, Chas Owens wrote:
> On 05 Jun 2001 12:28:01 -0700, Bob Mangold wrote:
> <snip>
> > so then at the command line I type:
> > perl test.pl -a help, -b me, -c please
> >
> > i even tried:
> > perl test.pl -a help -b me -c please
> <snip>
>
> type "chmod u+x test.pl"
> then type "./test.pl"
>
> The #!/usr/local/bin/perl tells the shell to launch perl for you
>
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chmod u+x makes test.pl and executable file. ./test.pl then runs it.
If you want to run one-liners type something like:
cat file | perl -e "while (<>) { print unless (/^\s*#/) }"
or the less verbose
cat file | perl -ne "print unless (/^\s*#/)"
see man perlrun or perldoc perlrun for more fun tricks
BTW: this one-liner prints all lines in file except comments
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