I've been trying to figure out if there is a way to have a perl file understand that i want it to do something with a file i drop onto it. When you make a link to certain executables in Window or Linux the files will be opened by those applications. for instance drop a text file on a shortcut to emacs and emacs will open that file for editing.
I imagine as perl files are interpreted not executed that it is unlikely that this will work transparently, but is there any kind of workaround for this?
ideally some thing like this would work like:

perl script.pl "/path/to/file1" "/path/to/file2"
[download]

Why would i want to do this? Mostly as a way to keep my users away from the command line, I believe this would be easier to teach them to do than going over command line basics.

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