You are right. I was using Getopt::Declare without defer{}, and that was the result. die is there since I am testing, and I don't want the whole process to run. nothing to worry about!

OK. I ended up doing the following. It is not exact but it helps me build meaningful command (based on recommendations on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6156742/how-can-i-capture-the-complete-commandline-in-perl). Double quote and single quote are just replaced by double quote. 

 my $cmd    = `ps -o args $$ | grep CJ.pl`;
        my @cmd = split(/\s/,$cmd);
        my $cmdline = "$cmd[0] "." $cmd[1]";
        foreach (@ARGV) {
            $cmdline .= /\s/ ?   " \"" . $_ . "\"":     " "   . $_;
        }

 print "$cmdline\n";

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But I still think perl should have a better way of catching the command line. It is bizarre that you can't simply get it exact!

In reply to Re^4: Catch the exact command line including the quotation marks and so on by CJmonk
in thread Catch the exact command line including the quotation marks and so on by CJmonk

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