A useful perl command line skeleton

[Dan Coutu]

Morbus Iff wrote:
>  >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
> 
Thanks for sharing the pointer!

>  >#!/usr/bin/perl -w
> 
> If you're looking for crossplatform fun,
> "use warnings" is more portable than the -w.
Good to know, I never tried using perl for other than experiments on
Windows.

> 
>  ># 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.
> 
> 
True, but only in the main code body itself. Once you get into the data
section after the __END__ indicator this no longer works. So you can't
use it in the pod text to auto-substitute the program name there.

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Dan Coutu
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