perl one-liner

[Robin Barker]

> I was trying the Perl one liner below but it complains about an *unrecognized
> switch*. despite this the value is passed into the code.  I was trying to
> avoid a full script file with a getopts and its baggage.
> perl -s -e "print $oldage;" -oldage=abc
>
> Anyone got an idea what will work.

This works

perl -s -e "print $oldage;" -- -oldage=abc

Robin


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