Hello NorthernDean and welcome to the monastery and to the wonderful world of Perl!

thanks for your hint, but as merlyn said 18 years ago (ouch!) and as YourMother repeated it is not so reliable. The fact is that perl does not provide a methodo to inspect the original argument list and in this list you must consider also eventual module imported and perl switch.

Our esteemed monk tobyink tried to mind this gap with a little XS module Devel::PL_origargv which you may find useful:

# be aware of windows double quotes!

perl -MDevel::PL_origargv -MData::Dumper -e "print Dumper [ Devel::PL_
+origargv->get ]" perlmonks 42 perl

$VAR1 = [
          'perl',
          '-MDevel::PL_origargv',
          '-MData::Dumper',
          '-e',
          'print Dumper [ Devel::PL_origargv->get ]',
          'perlmonks',
          '42',
          'perl'
        ];

[download]

As you can see also the oneliner is included in arguments: infact is an argument passed to perl -e and the same pass if you run a separate program: the filename is included in argument passed to perl.

L*

There are no rules, there are no thumbs..
Reinvent the wheel, then learn The Wheel; may be one day you reinvent one of THE WHEELS.

In reply to Re^2: Getting a script's original command line -- Devel::PL_origargv by Discipulus
in thread Getting a script's original command line by blackwolf

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.