perl -MStorable=retrieve -e '@ARGV = "-" unless @ARGV; print +(retriev
+e $_)->foo for @ARGV' filename
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You really really don't want <>, because it intends to read a line from the file. You don't want any reading... you want Storable to do that.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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