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On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 14:59, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Mike Starke wrote:
>=20
> > #! /usr/bin/perl
> > system ("touch /home/me/it_worked-$ARGV[0]");
>=20
> The "parameters" you mentioned are not command line arguments.
>=20
> They become the standard input to the script.

I realize that everything is good here now, but just a FYI for the
archive...

To do what you want there you should use something like:

cat parameters | xargs ./myscript.pl

xargs will take standard in and turn it into parameters on the command
line.  I find this to be one of the most useful shell tools that I use.

		--Ted


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