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From: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Recent patches
Message-ID: <1990Aug23.035932.2286@iwarp.intel.com>
Date: 23 Aug 90 03:59:32 GMT
References: <1990Aug22.062517.25360@iwarp.intel.com> <18PBo1w162w@cybrspc>
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In-Reply-To: cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail)

In article <18PBo1w162w@cybrspc>, cybrspc!roy@cs (Roy M. Silvernail) writes:
| > 	perl -ne 'print "$ARGV: $_" if /^Subject:/; close(ARGV) if /^$/' *
| OK, I'm a Perl novice (MS-DOS version, PL18, 4dos), but this line gives
| me a problem. Perl hands me
| 
| Can't open perl script "$ARGV: $_": No such file or directory
| 
| when I try it. I have also tried under command.com, and I diddled with
| whitespace and paramaters (-n -e, and so on), but no dice. Is this just
| the DOS curse?

I suspect it is, since you said it works if you put it into a file.
Too bad.  I ran the line right from my emacs buffer to test it, so I
*know* it works fine under a *real* shell. :-)

I'd guess your shell is completely ignoring the single quotes, because
that's the sort of error you'd get from a real shell if you left the
single quotes off.  Too bad (he mutters again).

Doesn't BASH work under Messy-Dos?  (I don't touch anything that has a
braindamaged 4004-upward-compatible segmented chip in it, so I
couldn't tell you.)

print "Just another Perl [book] hacker," # sorry... I'll think of something else soon
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