I liked your program, but IMHO you might want to make the password generator a subroutine that only runs if $template is defined. I'm running on a windows box at work, and I didn't get to see the instructions when the program prints 10 blank lines at the bottom. Also I'm sure everyone would agree on use strict and -w. Just a thought.

...... # your code
my $newpass = "";

sub make_passwords {
 for ($c... # your for loop
}
&make_passwords if $template;
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