On Jun 25, bob ackerman said:
>> perl -lane'$a{$F[0]}++or$a=qw/box robo rain/[$b++%3];print"$F[0] $a"'
>> yourfile.txt
>i assume things like '$a' ,'$b', and '$F' come from those switches, so
>only question is...
@F comes from the -a switch used in conjunction with -n. $a, %a, and $b
are just used.
>where are those command line switches documented?
>i would have thought 'perldoc perl' ... but, i didn't see it there, nor
>apparently in any other doc title it mentioned
Then you missed:
perlrun Perl execution and options
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