A useful perl command line skeleton

[Morbus Iff]

 >As a follow-on to my talk about Perl last month I thought I'd put
 >together a handy code framework that is very useful for creating command
 >line or cron based utilities.

See also: http://sial.org/code/perl/scripts/blank.pl.html

 >#!/usr/bin/perl -w

If you're looking for crossplatform fun,
"use warnings" is more portable than the -w.

 ># Basic verbosity shows at least the program version to the user.
 ># By comparing for verbosity > some value each bit of output
 ># can be fine tuned into different verbosity levels.
 >print "myprogram version $VERSION\n" if $Verbose > 0;

If you use $0 here, you can save yourself some editing.


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