in reply to Variations on self-replication

Inspired by Szymon Rusinkiewicz, here's how to create the smallest perl program which prints its source code to STDOUT. 
$ touch smallest
$ perl smallest

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Or, if you system doesn't have the touch command... 
perl -e ''

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-- All code is 100% tested and functional unless otherwise noted.

In Section Cool Uses for Perl