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From: stef@zweig.sun (Stephane Payrard)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: perl -x take argument as a filename (bug or feature?)
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Date: 14 Aug 90 00:28:14 GMT
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Assumiong there is no file named argument in the current directory,
pipe this article in 'perl -x argument'. The  output is:
Can't open perl script "argument": No such file or directory

I would have been expected the string 'argument' to be printed.

The script executed being the embedded script, it makes non sense to
expect a filename as argument. In this respect, the -x switch should
behave like the -e switch.


#! /usr/bin/perl
print $ARGV[0];
__END__


        stef
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