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read a file from the command line in perl

July 27th, 2006 by Lawrence David

to read in a file and print its contents (filename specified as the first command-line argument):

my($my_file) = $ARGV[0];
open(MYFILE,$my_file);

while ()
{
print $_;
}

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One Response to “read a file from the command line in perl”

1. on 14 Nov 2006 at 1:33 pm   Evil Overlord

   Or you could use:
   perl -e “while(){print;}” myfile.txt

   Or even just:
   perl -pe “” myfile.txt

   Or, for the true minimalist:
   perl -p myfile.txt