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This has got to be in the silly easy category, but I can't think of it for the life of me and I can't get the right keywords in super search to show what I'm missing...
I'm wanting to process a series of files but rather than go... 
-->process file1 file2 file3

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...I want to be able to go some thing like 
-->ls file* | process

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I'm running on linux and was under the impression that if I piped data it would appear as command line arguments, but this does not seem to be the case, or at least I'm doing it wrong.
So writing a simple example(counting lines) the does the first case does not work for the second... 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $numargs = $#ARGV + 1;

if ( $numargs == 0 ) {
        print "Incorrect number or arguments($numargs)...\nFormat: lin
+es <file>\n\n";
        exit(0);
}
my $t = 0;
for my $f ( 0 .. $#ARGV ) {
        my $file = $ARGV[$f];
        open FILE, "<$file" or die "Could not open file, $file : $!\n"
+;
        my $c = 0;
        while (<FILE>) {
                $c++;
                $t++;
        }
        close (FILE);
        print "$c\n";
}
print "----\n$t\n";

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Could someone please enlighten me to my fault and offer a solution for processing piped content and command line args? I've got a feeling I might have to check for command arguments and then if there are none then open up the standard input stream to receive content?

Regards Paul.

In reply to Receiving Standard Input/Piped by thekestrel

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