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Stuff with the Perl Foundation. A couple of patches in the Perl core. A few CPAN modules. That about sums it up.

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Thursday December 07, 2006
05:41 AM

Today's shell script: prove

[ #31836 ]

At work, almost every single time I run the prove utility, I type prove -l t/. I got tired of typing that. The following shell script in my bin/ seems silly, but it's really scratched an itch:

#!/usr/local/bin/bash

case "$1" in
    "") /usr/local/bin/prove -l t/ ;; # no arguments
    * ) /usr/local/bin/prove $*    ;; # Pass 'em straight through
esac


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  • Sorry, but I can't resist golfing^Wtinkering with shell scripts...

      #!/usr/local/bin/bash

      [ $# == 0 ] && set -- -l t/
      exec /usr/local/bin/prove "$@"

    $# is $#ARGV, more or less. Also, it's always better to use "$@" instead of $* because one day, you'll feed that sucker a filename with a space in. And it won't break with the former.

    -Dom

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