SPUG: Piping a file to perl to execute

JD Brennan jazzdev at gmail.com
Thu Sep 7 14:20:16 PDT 2006


You don't need a command line switch unless
you want to pass args:

% echo 'print "hi\n";' | perl
hi
% echo 'print "@ARGV\n";' | perl - a1 a2
a1 a2

JD

On 9/7/06, David S. Patterson <david.s.patterson at usa.net> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to kludge together a strategy to protect some perl source code
> from
> prying eyes (this would be on a Unix-like system).
>
> I'm thinking of a solution in which a simple compiled front-end program
> reads
> an encrypted text file, decodes it internally into a perl script, and then
> execs or launches the perl executable and somehow provides the decoded
> perl
> script to it.  The point is that the decoded perl script must never become
> a
> temporary file that a "casual user" could edit.  I think that temporary
> pipe
> files would be fine, finding and opening those is not "easy".
>
> Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions about this?
>
> Is it possible to "pipe" a file to perl and have it execute it?  Can it be
> done with the right command line switch?
>
> e.g.:  $ cat foo.pl | perl
>
> Thanx,
>
> -Pat
>
>
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