I've got about 20ish small scripts that need to be run. More are likely to be created.

They look like:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Some::Module;
my $obj = Some::Module->new(
   %options, code => \&code 
);
$obj->do_some_work;

sub code { ... }; # not always

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Mostly its just the arguments to the constructor that differ, but occaisionally a coderef is passed in.

So these scripts all need to get run one after another. I've got something like:

my @files = glob( 'run_me/*' );
while (  my $file = shift @files ) {

  my $cmd = "perl -Ilib $file >> log";
  print STDERR "$cmd\n";
  system( $cmd ) == 0 or die "something wrong: $?\n";

}

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This is fine, except that I've got a feeling that it could be prettier.

Should I cat all the small scripts together, thus saving the cost of starting perl for each, and the use Some::Module time? (They also each open a database connection and write to it, which could be done just once.) Should I cut down the small scripts to make them just be config files (maybe yes, but I'm not sure I've time left, or how to represent a couple of 'special cases').

Is there something else I've overlooked?

Thanks, qq

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