$__.= chr hex $_ for split /\\x/,'\x4a\x75\x73\x74\x20\x61\x6e\x6f\x74\x68\x65\x72\x20\x50\x65\x72\x6c\x20\x68\x61\x63\x6b\x65\x72\x0a';print $__; or perl -pe 's/eval/print/' filename.pl|perl|perl