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Read command line arguments in Perl

Answer:

To read the command line arguments in Perl, you need to play with the special array $ARGV

E.g. test.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;

print $ARGV[0];

Then execute

# perl test.pl hello
hello

The first argument will be printed to the screen.

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