[Canberra-pm] here document perl script

James Ring sjr at jdns.org
Thu Jun 8 18:21:00 PDT 2006


Hi Kim,

> I want to put a here document fragment of perl in a shell script.
> I'm sure I've done something like this before but I can't get it to
> work.  Anyone got any ideas?
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
>
> /usr/bin/perl -e -- <<EOP

The stuff between <<EOP and EOP will be passed into Perl's standard input,
so you don't need the -e. I think this works:

/usr/bin/perl - <<EOP

> Kim Holburn

Regards,
James
-- 
James Ring



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