I've asked a similar question to this one before, but now I'm stuck at another junction and need some wisdom. What I'm trying to do is have a Perl module that is also usable standalone. Things are working just fine, except when it comes to passing arguments into the script. First, a little code: 
#!/bin/sh

eval "exec /usr/bin/perl -I`dirname $0` -M`basename $0 .pm` -e main --
+ $@ "
    if $running_under_some_shell;

sub main {
    for my $arg (@ARGV){
    print "=>$arg<=\n";
    }
}

1;

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When I run this script with arguments like "this is" "a test", I get 
=>this is a test<=
when I want to get 
=>this is<=
=>a test<=
I'm looking for any suggestions. I've found ways of making the shell handle things correctly, but Perl doesn't like any of the incantations that I've tried.

In reply to Module/script all in one by bschmer

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