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Old 08-30-2007
How to call a perl script from a shell script
I have a perl script,Test.pl

which needs arguments from command line like test.pl arg1 arg2 arg3

how can i call it from a shell script
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Old 08-30-2007
Question may be this
I am new to perl. But may be this is the syntax
Code:
perl -w test.pl arg1 arg2 arg3

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Old 08-30-2007
ranj@chn, you are correct.

Optionally, you can set execute permission to the perl script, add the following line as first line in the script:
Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

and then call it as:
Code:
test.pl arg1 arg2 arg2

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