> I'm a perl newby. me too:-) Right list, I assume. > I'm looking on taking a command line argument from > STDIN and use it for input to a script that upgrades > software. Any examples would be greatly appreciated.
@ARGV holds your command line arguments. call: scriptname.pl Universe 42 douglas 'Zappod Beblebrox' #! /usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; print "You called me with ", scalar @ARGV, " Arguments.\n"; if (@ARGV) { print " Param to script: $_\n" foreach (@ARGV); } Notice that there is a nice wa of processing command line args with the getopt:: modules from CPAN. Also take a look at perldoc perlvar for detailed info about @ARGV, ARGV and $ARGV. Hope that helps, Wolf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>