@ARGV: Command Line Arguments

Perl has a special array called @ARGV .

This is the list of arguments passed along with the script name on the command line. Run the following perl script as:

perl -w script.pl test

foreach (@ARGV) {

print "$_\n";

}

Example

ubuntu@server3:~/perl$ cat arg.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl

foreach (@ARGV) {

print "$_\n";

}

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ubuntu@server3:~/perl$ perl -w arg.pl this is a test file

this

is

a

test

file

ubuntu@server3:~/perl$