Put
- $ perl -mysw 'f$env("procedure")' 'p1' 'p2' 'p3' 'p4' 'p5' 'p6' 'p7' 'p8' !
- $ exit++ + ++$status != 0 and $exit = $status = undef;
+ $ perl -mysw 'f$env("procedure")' 'p1' 'p2' 'p3' 'p4' 'p5' 'p6' 'p7' 'p8' !
+ $ exit++ + ++$status != 0 and $exit = $status = undef;
at the top of your program, where B<-mysw> are any command line switches you
want to pass to Perl. You can now invoke the program directly, by saying
on quoting than Unix shells. You'll need to learn the special
characters in your command-interpreter (C<*>, C<\> and C<"> are
common) and how to protect whitespace and these characters to run
-one-liners (see B<-e> below).
+one-liners (see L<-e|/-e commandline> below).
On some systems, you may have to change single-quotes to double ones,
which you must I<not> do on Unix or Plan 9 systems. You might also
D 24 i + o
A 32 the @ARGV elements are expected to be strings encoded
in UTF-8
- L 64 normally the "IOEioA" are unconditional,
- the L makes them conditional on the locale environment
- variables (the LC_ALL, LC_TYPE, and LANG, in the order
- of decreasing precedence) -- if the variables indicate
+ L 64 normally the "IOEioA" are unconditional, the L makes
+ them conditional on the locale environment variables
+ (the LC_ALL, LC_TYPE, and LANG, in the order of
+ decreasing precedence) -- if the variables indicate
UTF-8, then the selected "IOEioA" are in effect
- a 256 Set ${^UTF8CACHE} to -1, to run the UTF-8 caching code in
- debugging mode.
+ a 256 Set ${^UTF8CACHE} to -1, to run the UTF-8 caching
+ code in debugging mode.
=for documenting_the_underdocumented
perl.h gives W/128 as PERL_UNICODE_WIDESYSCALLS "/* for Sarathy */"
the default C<open()> layer are UTF-8-fied I<but> only if the locale
environment variables indicate a UTF-8 locale. This behaviour follows
the I<implicit> (and problematic) UTF-8 behaviour of Perl 5.8.0.
+(See L<perl581delta/UTF-8 no longer default under UTF-8 locales>.)
You can use B<-C0> (or C<"0"> for C<PERL_UNICODE>) to explicitly
disable all the above Unicode features.
512 r Regular expression parsing and execution
1024 x Syntax tree dump
2048 u Tainting checks
- 4096 U Unofficial, User hacking (reserved for private, unreleased use)
+ 4096 U Unofficial, User hacking (reserved for private,
+ unreleased use)
8192 H Hash dump -- usurps values()
16384 X Scratchpad allocation
32768 D Cleaning up
131072 T Tokenizing
- 262144 R Include reference counts of dumped variables (eg when using -Ds)
- 524288 J show s,t,P-debug (don't Jump over) on opcodes within package DB
+ 262144 R Include reference counts of dumped variables (eg when
+ using -Ds)
+ 524288 J show s,t,P-debug (don't Jump over) on opcodes within
+ package DB
1048576 v Verbose: use in conjunction with other flags
2097152 C Copy On Write
4194304 A Consistency checks on internal structures
- 8388608 q quiet - currently only suppresses the "EXECUTING" message
+ 8388608 q quiet - currently only suppresses the "EXECUTING"
+ message
16777216 M trace smart match resolution
- 33554432 B dump suBroutine definitions, including special Blocks like BEGIN
+ 33554432 B dump suBroutine definitions, including special Blocks
+ like BEGIN
All these flags require B<-DDEBUGGING> when you compile the Perl
executable (but see C<:opd> in L<Devel::Peek> or L<re/'debug' mode>
This allows you to add a prefix to the backup file, instead of (or in
addition to) a suffix:
- $ perl -pi'orig_*' -e 's/bar/baz/' fileA # backup to 'orig_fileA'
+ $ perl -pi'orig_*' -e 's/bar/baz/' fileA # backup to
+ # 'orig_fileA'
Or even to place backup copies of the original files into another
directory (provided the directory already exists):
- $ perl -pi'old/*.orig' -e 's/bar/baz/' fileA # backup to 'old/fileA.orig'
+ $ perl -pi'old/*.orig' -e 's/bar/baz/' fileA # backup to
+ # 'old/fileA.orig'
These sets of one-liners are equivalent:
- $ perl -pi -e 's/bar/baz/' fileA # overwrite current file
- $ perl -pi'*' -e 's/bar/baz/' fileA # overwrite current file
+ $ perl -pi -e 's/bar/baz/' fileA # overwrite current file
+ $ perl -pi'*' -e 's/bar/baz/' fileA # overwrite current file
- $ perl -pi'.orig' -e 's/bar/baz/' fileA # backup to 'fileA.orig'
- $ perl -pi'*.orig' -e 's/bar/baz/' fileA # backup to 'fileA.orig'
+ $ perl -pi'.orig' -e 's/bar/baz/' fileA # backup to 'fileA.orig'
+ $ perl -pi'*.orig' -e 's/bar/baz/' fileA # backup to 'fileA.orig'
From the shell, saying
... # your program goes here
}
-Note that the lines are not printed by default. See B<-p> to have
+Note that the lines are not printed by default. See L</-p> to have
lines printed. If a file named by an argument cannot be opened for
some reason, Perl warns you about it and moves on to the next file.