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Re: Package of non-development scripts?



On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 08:23:32PM +1000, Rebecca Dridan wrote:
> To satisfy my curiousity, what does the -p00l12 option to perl do.  I couldn't
> find the explanation in my admittedly quick skim of the perl docs.

-p is the "make a while(<>) { print $_ }" loop switch.
-0 specifies the input record seperater
-l makes print (et al) automatically terminate lines (in this case with \012).

It could be written as "perl -p -00 -l12" but that would be less exciting ;)

Ben

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