Re: [perl #24519] Piped opening from command line?

Leah <perl5-porters@perl.org> writes:
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>Is there a way to read files given on the commandline which begin or end
>with '|' (pipe) using <>, -p, or -n?  It doesn't seem to be possible. 

You can use the 3-arg form of open:

open(my $fh,'<',$ARGV[$N]);

or sysopen

use Fcntl;
sysopen(my $fh,$ARGV[N],O_RDONLY);

both avoid the magic.

>It seems strange that perl would trust the user to open arbitrary pipes.

• [perl #24519] Piped opening from command line? by Leah
• Re: [perl #24519] Piped opening from command line? by Nick Ing-Simmons
• Re: [perl #24519] Piped opening from command line? by Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan