A perl shell (sorta)

Well this is a cool little thing for all of you out there
who dont know about it.
It lets you basicly just do on the fly perl code like perl -e 'code'
but in a shell like interface.
I used to use this all the time while I was coding to check simple
regex's etc etc.. the uses are endless :)

#!/usr/bin/perl -d
shell
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or just type "perl -de shell" at the command line

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RE: A perl shell (sorta) by merlyn (Sage) on Aug 15, 2000 at 16:44 UTC
Or even simpler: `perl -debug` [download] which puts you into the debugger debugging a program consisting of `bug;`! Warning: this works only on recent Perls, probably 5.004 and later. Whichever Perl where you could nestle the code up against the `-e` switch. Prior to that, you had to so something like: `perl -de 0` [download] -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply] [d/l] [select]