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From: nwinton@dalriada.axion.bt.co.uk (Neil Winton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: shortest self-reproducing Perl program
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Date: 28 Mar 90 09:54:17 GMT
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Um ... err ... I may have missed this one going by but how about

	exec 'cat', $0;

Nahhh ... too much of a cheat ... but it does fulfill Randal's requirement
that `"perl file" should behave exactly as "cat file"' :-)

Neil

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