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Perl spew is nice. ;-) I was originally playing around with these: 
    perl -peek filename
    perl -peer filename

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but I settled on the polite version.

I think that the best example of a Perl program without a program is the following snippet by Abigail which strips blank lines from a file:     perl -li -00pe0 filename
The following does nothing at all:     perl -alien -sex -Fiend Perhaps I could expand this into a poem. KM would it qualify?

Update: My final effort in the useless non-use of cat competition:     perl -peruse filename

John.
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Re: Re: Perl please
by KM (Priest) on Apr 21, 2001 at 23:28 UTC
    Perhaps I could expand this into a poem. KM would it qualify?

    Sure. However, this may count as using the perl interpreter in 'poetry mode', but if it isn't poetic, then it doesn't really count as a poem :) If it came down to an entry in the Poetry Contest, like the one above, I would like that it works, but would fail the -w and strict tests. So, unless it was very clever, it would be rejected. Still fun, nonetheless :)

    I would like things (slightly) clever like: 

    perl -alien -sex -Fiend 'do { my $elf; } or die "dirty alien"';

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    Cheers,
    KM

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