There's nothing special about one-liners, not even the options which can be present in the shebang. The -n option on the other hand can make using $. a little more tricky, as it will not be reset from one file to the other if you are processing several at once. You can force it to be reset by closing the file handle as shown in eof, but personally at this point I would consider turning the one-liner into a .pl file. The $. issue is still true in a file script when using <>, but I haven't often seen it used to read from files rather than STDIN outside of a one-liner.

In reply to Re^2: How does $. work in one liner? by Eily
in thread How does $. work in one liner? by elevenfly

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