Best way is to use Getopt::Long !

Why? It's not as if the OP has a lot of options handling to do. For one thing, (for example) apachectl restart is just as nice as (if not nicer than) apachectl --restart, and from the programmer's perspective:

for my $cmd (@ARGV) {
  &{$dispatch->{$cmd}}
    or warn "Unrecognized command $cmd!\n";
}
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is about as good as:

for my $cmd (keys %$opts) {
  &{$dispatch->{$cmd}}
    or warn "Unrecognized command $cmd!\n";
}
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In this context, what advantages do the Getopt modules have?

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