Ahh, thanks, that is neat!

I want that shell to present some kind of user interface for inputting a very limited set of commands. These commands will controll display of logs from about 30 machines. I have logs cleaned up, and ready to be displayed in a sanitized state with some minimal statistics as number of connections, top 10 speakers, etc.

The shell should be able to parse something like:

use domain.com
#select subset of data to work on
show smtpproxy top10
#display top 10 smtpproxy users for domain.com

Assume that in the above case I would have a smtpproxy function take the domain and the option (top10) as arguments, and display formated data.

Term::Shell might be the answer, I missed it in my search somehow. At the same time I would be glad to use my own and learn something in the process.

-- maciek