in reply to Re^2: Questions about creating CPAN modules
in thread Questions about creating CPAN modules

What you rely on is no magic on the part of cat but more on the part of /bin/sh, and no, there is no easy way to replicate that functionality as-is without writing a shell interpreter.

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Re^4: Questions about creating CPAN modules
by gsiems (Deacon) on Oct 14, 2009 at 02:12 UTC

    True... however, I don't know how else to do it without using cat as a wrapper of sorts. So, even though cat does not contain the magic it seems to be needed to enable the magic.

    --gsiems