Yes, I often run into things where exec( $^X, ..., $0, @ARGV ) is a nice solution. Many times the "...," part doesn't matter. But increasingly, that has turned out to be a problem. And when it is a problem, it can be quite a hard problem.

Thinking about it now, I think I'd use a shell script wrapper to solve it in a lot of cases, passing the full argument list via some back channel like an environment variable. Too bad bash doesn't just export $ENV{BASH_COMMAND} like it exports $ENV{_}. I guess I could arrange that as part of a DEBUG hook: 

trap 'export _CMD_LINE="$BASH_COMMAND"' DEBUG

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That worked quite well in a quick test. I wonder if I can even get bash to split that into arguments for me so I don't have to re-do bash's parsing logic (such as via Text::Shellwords, which might not be perfect for some complex cases). Maybe not since $BASH_COMMAND will include things like "> foo". Too bad $COMP_WORDS[@] is only available to programmable completion routines...

But it would be a nice (and simple) enhancement to Perl for there to be some special variable like @{^ARGV} which would be a copy of the original argv that perl.exe got in its main(). It might also be nice to record how many of those were determined to be "options" when Perl finished going through them.

- tye        

In reply to Re^3: How to get at perl's options in a program (exec) by tye
in thread How to get at perl's options in a program by mpersico

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