Hello, This is probably a dumb question but I'm still pretty new to Perl... I want to create a perl script that will open and read a file, and input that file's text into the CMD line and run that command.... Basically the text file will have any number of commands written in it, and I can pull out a line from the file and run it in the command prompt. Any idea where to start? I haven't been able to find anything helpful yet... only how to read FROM the command line ( i.e. @ARGV, etc. ). My thanks!

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So I should probably explain what I'm really trying to achieve ( At the suggestion of Kennethk calling me out on my XY Problem description ).

I plan to have many different text files in a folder... and I want to be able to run each one as a command whenever I want, just by typing in the name of the file... I suppose I could do the files as batch files instead, now that I think about it.. Although I'm still curious as to the process for it. Had some good comments thus far, thanks guys.

In reply to Code to Open A File and Run Text From CMD Link by Von_Halen

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