perl inside a shell script

baidym · 05-05-2008, 02:09 PM

Hi guys,

I know..., the first thing you're going to say "why?, just use perl for gods sake!!". Well... just because ok

I've been writing lots of scripts that call on other scripts and it's just getting messy. I'd like to write a shell that calls on perl (without writing "perl" at the start of each command) and then goes back to shell without any fuss. I assume it'll be some kind of while statement but I'm not exactly sure.

thankx

M.

beadyallen · 05-05-2008, 03:29 PM

You could try using a here construct like:

Code:

perl <<'EOF'
put
your
perl 
lines
here

EOF

It's nicer to have perl scripts as separate executables though. Embedding them will likely cause problems with variable expansion and the like.

chrism01 · 05-05-2008, 06:42 PM

Well,depending exactly how you use Perl, if you put
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
at the top of each perl script and make it executable, then you can call it without mentioning Perl eg

./myperlscript1.pl