jambi has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Team, I have a .sh in which I do not want a certain .pl script from running. Ho do I comment /bypass just that piece. Thank you for the help in advance. So I forget to mention that the original setup script is a fairly large .sh and this gets uncompressed. Is there a way to include the comment from the command line itself eg: #starter.pl /blah1/blah2/blahx.sh Where when blahx.sh executes it fails at a check.pl script. I want it not run that check.pl script Thanks for your help

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Re: stop a .pl script from launching within a larger script
by choroba (Cardinal) on Aug 06, 2015 at 13:31 UTC
    The comment character in sh is #: 
    #!/bin/sh

run_me.pl
# dont_run_me.pl

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Re: stop a .pl script from launching within a larger script
by CountZero (Bishop) on Aug 06, 2015 at 15:05 UTC
    In case you cannot edit the shell script but you have access to the perl script:
    1. rename the perl script
    2. add a new, but empty, perl script with the "old" name.

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      So I forget to mention that the original setup script is a fairly large .sh and this gets uncompressed. Is there a way to include the comment from the command line itself eg: #starter.pl /blah1/blah2/blahx.sh Where when blahx.sh executes it fails at a check.pl script. I want it not run that check.pl script Thanks for your help

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        Still sounds like →this is the solution. Otherwise, you should tell us why you can't apply it.
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