It really depends on your target os.

Take a look at the PPM (distributed with ActivePerl) and the CPAN (distributed with perl) and CPANPLUS (available from cpan) modules.

You also might wanna look in the Term or Curses family for an interface.

Generally such scripts rarely work out nicely due to the unlimited number of problems that can crop up.

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