SPUG: Perl logic module?

[Colin Meyer]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 11:51:42AM -0800, Brian Hatch wrote:
> 
> 
> I want to write something that can handle some standard logic command
> line arguments.  Think tcpdump args, for example.  So I'd supply
> subroutines (or whatever's required) that can return true/false, and
> have some perl module stick them together in the correct dynamic order,
> as requested by the user.
> 
> For example, if I want to do something to a bunch of hosts depending
> on the criteria specified
> 
>   do_something -os linux -and ( -location seattle -o -purpose webserver)
> 
> 
> So I'd provide subs/etc for 'os', 'loc'tion' and 'purpose' and it'd call
> them as appropriate for each thing (host in the above case) to give me
> a grand 'true/false' when all's said and done.
> 
> Anyone know of something like this?

find2perl does a similar sort of option processing. Unfortunately, it
seems that the processing is located directly in the program, and is not
abstracted into a module.

-Colin.