Hi Travis,
> It provides a mechanism for reading a single key word option from
> the command line just as the scripts found in the init.d directory
> do on most UNIX.
AFAIK, the SystemV init scripts take one argument, that may be the
keyword "start" or "stop", sometimes keywords like "restart" or
"reload". This would lead to simple programming like
if ( $ARGV[0] eq "start" ) {
print "I'm supposed to start something\n";
}
elsif ( $ARGV[0] eq "stop" ) {
print "I'm supposed to stop something\n";
}
else {
print "usage: thisprogram [ start | stop ]\n";
}
Unless I'm overlooking something I fail to se the added benefit of
having a module for this purpose.
In any case, Getopt:: is not a good name prefix since you're not
dealing with program options in the Unix sense of the word.
Have you looked at the App::Control module?
-- Johan
