OK... so here I am teaching my self Perl. I am learning in the proper way (taking others scripts and learning from them, and converting my bash scripts to perl as a way to learn while doing.)

So here is my current snag... can i use command line options when running a perl program??

For example, in bash, I can set it up so that:

command opt1 opt1

translates opt1 into $1 and opt2 into $2.

but I havent gotten this to work in perl yet. I can do it using stdin variable declarations ($variable=<stdin>) but that makes the scripts a little more intensive than I want. 

I simply want to run a script like this:

sync fromhost
 and not like this:
sync
ENTER DIRECTION: fromhost

any wisdom?

In reply to command line options by Bladernr

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