Dear Monks,

I wrote a Perl script which receives 2 arguments specified with GetOpt::Long which I call the following way:

perl heavylifter.pl --file thisfile --db thisdatabase

To save myself some time, I made a script which makes a system call to that script over a list of files. However I am at a loss to find out how to specify the arguments in long form.

To get by, I modified my heavylifter script to receive the file as $ARGV[0] and hardcoded the db in it to avoid the --db argument so the calling script looks like the following: 
use strict;
use warnings;

my @listFiles = ("thisfile", "thatfile", "thisotherfile");

foreach my $i (@listFiles) {
    print "file passed: $i\n";
    system ("perl.exe", "full_path_to_heavylifter.pl", $i) ;
}

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This is clearly a step backward and I would appreciate any guidance on how to properly call a script from a script with GetOpt::Long arguments.

Best regards and thanks!

In reply to Calling a script from a script with GetOpt::Long arguments by jjap

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