in reply to How do I read data passed to perl script

For some things, I use @ARGV, and for others, I use the Getopt::Std and Getopt::Long modules at cpan.org. It depends on what your needs are. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

if(@ARGV) {
    print "You entered @ARGV\n";
}

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