As said before, put this at the begining of your script (after the SheBang...

use <a href="http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=Getopt%3A
+%3ALong">Getopt::Long
</a>;

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And you'll manage all kinds of inputs.

You might have to read the perldoc...

>perldoc -m Getopt::Long

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It does magic at CLI like CGI does at a WWW server.

If you cannot get it, it's not you, it is that you might need some reading. Perl is quite easy once you know all the basic syntax.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Passing arguments to a background process... by chanio
in thread Passing arguments to a background process... by Anonymous Monk

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