MS> To that end I ask, what *exactly* are you trying to do.
Let's just say the gawk man page says
-f program-file
--file program-file
Read the AWK program source from the file program-file, instead
of from the first command line argument. Multiple -f (or
--file) options may be used.
But perlrun is hush-hush about the whole issue of multiple
programs. Therefore, "if perl is to have any hope of competing with
gawk 'on moral ground', it should be forthcoming about what one should
do if one wants to use multiple program-files.
Probably a lot of the stuff in the reply you posted is
relevant. Anyway, it should say something. Also mention the case where
one wants to mix -e's too.
(I wanted to do
$ perl A < I|perl B|perl -e C|perl D
OK. Next time I will try "do".)
