OT: perl function call from a bash script.

[Sam Varshavchik]

Strong writes:

> I have an application that formerly was written in bash but latter got
> many scripts being written both in bash and perl. Now I want to use a
> function that is contained in a perl-script - that is used by other
> perl scripts using 'require' - from a bash script. I need to call it
> passing a string to it and get the result from it (a string also).
> 
> I've looked through several bash guides but did not find a solution.
> So, my question is, How to do that?

foo=`perl -e 'require <whatever>; print $result'`


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