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Practical Perl Tools: CLI Me a River

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David N. Blank-Edelman

If Neil Stephenson’s 1999 60+ page essay “In the Beginning was the Command Line” left you feeling “ooh, a famous science fiction author really gets me, he really understands what is in my heart,” then this column is for you. Today we’re going to talk about a few ways you can write a better command-line program in Perl.

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December 2013, Volume 38, Number 6
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