APM: Question: How to access command line before its parsed into @ARGV
Wayne Walker
wwalker at bybent.com
Thu Aug 25 07:15:30 PDT 2005
The first layer of quotes is removed by the shell prior to the fork/exec
of the perl interpreter, do the quotes can't be gotten by a perl program
since they were removed before perl was exec'd
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 07:14:28PM -0700, Bill Raty wrote:
> I'm needing to write a perl program that receives command line
> arguments that may be double quoted.
>
> # This won't work as quotes are removed
> my $command_line = join ' ', @ARGV;
>
> -Bill
>
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