Personally, I'd do it the other way around, that is, just write the whole thing in Perl... but ok, embedding Perl into a longer shell script is ok too, I guess... ;-)

I'm assuming you're using bash, and you don't seem to need STDIN in your Perl script, so I'd probably use a here doc, like in the following. I've also made some tweaks, plus you didn't seem to be passing the Perl script any filenames. (Note: I tested without RTF::TEXT::Converter.)

function fConvert {
    perl -wMstrict -- - $@ <<'ENDPERL'
    use RTF::TEXT::Converter;
    my $result = '';
    my $object = RTF::TEXT::Converter->new( output => \$result );
    foreach my $filename (@ARGV) {
        $object->parse_stream($filename);
        print $result;
        $result = '';
    }
ENDPERL
}

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Update: Or, just make it a oneliner ;-) (the module just prints its output by default)

perl -wMstrict -MRTF::TEXT::Converter -00ne
    'RTF::TEXT::Converter->new->parse_string($_)'

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Update 2: I guess I should mention why I'd suggest a heredoc: when the delimiter is quoted (as in 'ENDPERL'), you don't have to worry about special characters within the heredoc.

In reply to Re: Perl and Shell (text conversion) (updated) by haukex
in thread Perl and Shell (text conversion) by Bryan882

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