in reply to Chaining scripts smartly

If your working on Win32 and using ActiveState, investigate the utility pl2bat.pl that you'll find in your perl\bin directory.

It will allow you to convert you perl scripts to bat files that then allows you to use the normal piping method of chaining without requiring you to type 

perl script1.pl infile | perl script2.pl >outfile

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which is a pain.

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