I'm looking for a quick and dirty, but compatible and reliable, way to download and run a Perl program in one simple, cut-and-paste-able line. So far, I've come up with is:     perl -e 'eval `lynx --source http://theurlfortheprogram/`' Obviously, what you get at the URL is a Perl program without HTML formatting, such as you would get if you did this:     $ ln -s perlprogram index.html I had tried a few variations, but piping from lynx to perl, for example, seemed to take over STDIN, rendering it useless for user input. During some experimentation, I discovered a similar technique used at Ximian, where they had used sh instead, but with a pipe, presumably because their installer isn't interactive on the command line.

This is so that I can download and run a Perl program which fixes up things to that they work (i.e PATH, .cshrc, .bashrc) among other things, such as hauling over a kit of standard goodies, toys, and projectiles to put into ~/bin.

The question is, is there an easier/better way?

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