perl -e "@now = localtime(); for $now(@now) {print $now;}"
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perl -e "$now = localtime(); print $now;"
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perl -e "my $x = clock(); sub clock { return localtime(); } print $x;"
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perl -e "my @x = clock(); sub clock { return localtime(); } print @x;"
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