$ perl -v | head -2 | tail -1 This is perl 5, version 38, subversion 0 (v5.38.0) built for cygwin-thread-multi $ alias perle alias perle='perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -Mautodie=:all -MCarp::Always -E' $ perle 'say "arg=:$_:" for @ARGV' 'Hello Bod' arg=:Hello Bod: $ cat print-args.pl use strict; use warnings; for my $arg (@ARGV) { print "arg=:$arg:\n"; } $ perl print-args.pl 'Hello Bod' arg=:Hello Bod: